I’m pretty sure some nefarious flagging is happening and I hope dang takes a look at it.
Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team
Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger teamI was thinking, "sharp downturn in the EV market?" So I looked up some stats and found "US EV sales reached 1,119,251 in 2023, up from 760,329 in 2022, 462,247 in 2021, 245,586 in 2020, and 230,761 in 2019."
There's no "sharp downturn". It's just people getting fed up with a fascist spokesperson, a product that has looked dated for years now, and better options available. I wish we still had decent journalists.
So it's not that adoption as a whole is in trouble but more that any one ev maker is going to find it harder to make a lot of sales at the moment.
And it's definitely the case that a big chunk of tesla stock value was tied up with elons brand which is looking more like a problem than a benefit these days.
This is interesting. Get the assessment for being excellent and necessary is linked to strategy and business plans . How does one assess trustworthiness ? Interesting to understand what a trustworthy test would look like !
When does SpaceX go to shit now and all that tax money subsidizing it go to waste?
https://x.com/willjameson/status/1785304036545315065?s=46&t=...
In this case it seems true.
It's not clickbait.
Elon will properly rehire those he needs from the team via extra compensation as needed.
Given all of that, Tesla no longer needs to be in the supercharger game.
No, Tesla's charging standard is dead.
Everyone in North America is going to use CCS with Tesla's plug. The plug is now standardized as SAE J3400. It's CCS type 3.
Older Teslas will need a retrofit to be able to talk CCS.
Expect the Supercharger team to reconstitute itself with funding from several automakers and/or VC. It seems to me that the 'just works' feature that we love about Superchargers is going to get some level of competitiveness/innovation soon... like who thought it was a good idea to expose these chargers to rain (awnings seem like a big plus for a competitor to grab share).