I am dumbfounded by the Tesla Supercharger Team layoffs

Just a couple of points:

• 9% fewer cars made Q1 2024
  • 18% profit margin means ~11% lost revenue
• ~14% employees fired to bring expenses inline with revenue
• J3400 (NACS) team accomplished goal
  • Did they move to another productive goal or service?
• No announcement of layoffs in Tesla Buffalo plant making chargers

Nobody has a "right" to a job. The best time of past projects has been when there is a budget problem. That squeezes out innovation that big budgets ignore.

Bob Wilson

 

I detest Twitter/X but that seems to be Elon's first choice for making comments . . . subject to SEC mandated moderation.

Bob Wilson

 

It's possible that Elon is going to sell the Tesla charging network to someone else. Is this going to happen too early. Will this turn folks off from buying a new Tesla?

He's clearly doesn't see making cars that don't drive themselves as Tesla's future. So far the stock hasn't cratered. So apparently folks still believe in him.

 

Well, letting go of the people that know how it all works would be a funny way of preparing to sell the thing.

Which isn't quite a correct description - apparently the people that do maintenance are still around.

 

Has zero to do with firing the ENTIRE Supercharger team. They didn't move anywhere but out the door.

The Superchargers are the very core of Tesla without the chargers there is no Tesla vehicles. One can only assumr Elon is making a Twitter boneheaded move. I suspect he threw one of his well knwon 2 year old tantrums. He needs to go , it's time for Tesla board to show him the door.

 

Here is where Musk is spending Tesla money..on FSD ..

"Elon Musk says any company that isn’t spending $10 billion on AI this year like Tesla won’t be able to compete"

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Instead of admitting that FSD is NOT happing anytime soon ...he just keeps throwing money at it .

he just sacked the entire Supercharger teams.. the core of Tesla . He really needs to clear his brain . Start sleeping and layoff he drugs, I'm serious he is addicted ..well known fact he has a drug problem. Throwing away Teslas core busines so he can keep throwing money down the black hole of FSD.

 

Why didn't Elon instead increase charging fees to pay the salaries of the 500 Supercharger employees he fired. Make more money and piss off people: a Muskian win-win scenario.

 

The reports I saw were that Musk was demanding that Tinucci make deep cuts in her team. She pushed back, so instead Musk laid off her and her entire team.

 

Which demonstrates that he isnt in control , he took an emotional response . Just demonstrates how his thinking isnt clear. He has anger managment issues and I'll say it again ..he doesnt sleep and he does way too many drugs.

He just screwed over tens of thousands of other workers ..sub contractors , energy companies putting up infrastructure for the chargers etc.. along with the 500 in the Supercharging Dept.

did you hear about the email sent to all the contractors/subcontrators/energy comapnies.. Stop order on all new Supercharger projects. Tesla sent a generic email to all of them and that thy also dont know how or when they will get paid (all the contractors) because there is no one left in Supercharging that share that info..who is even owed . lol

total clusterduck.

at bare mininum Tesla board needs to demand Drug testing from Elon(just like you would with any other employee) as well as anger management.. he acts like a child when he doesnt get his way . Personally I think it's time for hime to leave Tesla .. Would like to see his work load to a level that is more manageable..maybe just run SpaceX ..and sell Twitter/X //thats mnessing with his miond as well

 

EEK! EEK!

I'm about to drive 700 miles to Munro & Associates. Are the Tesla SuperChargers going to be gone?

Of course not. You' all need to hold off trying to guess Elon's mind. Eventually, he may or may not explain he is thinking. As for me, I'll be in Ann Arbor tomorrow and drive back a day or so later.

Bob Wilson

 

You still dont get it do you..

He also just handed the top charging network talent to his competitors.. GM Ford Styelantis, Electrify America ..he just gave them the best charging talent on the planet.he's an idiot

Could Electrify America go from worst to First with this gift from elon ! lol as consumers this may end up very well for us as this top talent gets pickup by all the competitors. Tesla will end up having to higher Electrify Americas team ..lol too funny.

 

Well he can sell the network. The supercharger network isn't key to where Elon is taking Tesla. Eventually, I believe Elon will sell the network. It's even possible that Shell could buy the it.

Secondly, we don't know if the folks at Tesla can get to level 4 self-driving nation wide. Elon certainly knows more then us as to where Tesla is at with FSD. If they can get to work, their stock goes to the moon, and the other OEM's stock crashes. Elon has just increased the bet on it.

Thirdly, I don't know how special the former employees of Tesla's superchargers where, but some of their work can be handled through contracts with other companies if Elon wants to continue building out the network.

Fourthly, building cars at Tesla is now taking the backseat. It doesn't appear to me that any new models outside of the model 2 will be cars that you drive yourself, and it's possible the model 2 will be the last new model period.

This does leave the OEMs in a bit of bind. Ford and Rivian are the only two OEMs that can currently use their network. So it's going to be interesting to see if Tesla just opens the network all at once and lets the other OEMs figure it out on their own, or if Elon kept a few folks to handle that stuff.

I guess we will see how much to affects sales of Teslas and in EVs in general. Elon may have been too early and over done it.

So far Tesla's stock hasn't cratered. So investors still believe in Elon.

 

Based on their clueless performance to date, Tesla's charging-network competitors probably haven't yet heard the news about Tesla's 500 fired employees. When they finally get around to talking with Tesla's fired employees, the other charging-network companies will recoil with horror when they learn about the high level of money and material resources it takes to create a reliable charging network. "Impossible! It's no wonder Elon fired you!"

 

Have to admit, I still haven't figured out what Musk is up to. But am sure he didn't do this without some plan we don't know about yet. We can speculate. Sell it, rehire a new team, somehow use this as leverage to get more govt funding, screw the competitors that were adopting his NACS standard, or who knows. Guess we will have to wait and see.

 

It won't be my first nor likely my last.

Bob Wilson

 

I predicted in late 2022 that relatively soon, like in 2-3 years, Tesla would be bankrupt or sold off at fire sale prices if Musk continues as CEO. I may or may not have gotten the timing quite right, but other than that I stand by my prediction. Elon's a psycho, and ultimately a big, complex company can't survive with a nutcase at the helm.

 

What do you think would happen to Tesla if Musk was no longer at the helm?