Tesla Fires Entire Supercharger Department in Company Restructuring Effort: 500 Employees Dismissed

Electric car company Tesla on Tuesday he shot the entire department that deals with fast and free “Supercharger” charging stations: the two main managers of the department, Rebecca Tinucci and Daniel Ho, and about 500 other employees have been dismissed. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, announced the decision in an internal message to the company, describing it as a necessary step to “make it clear that we must be absolutely determined in the process of corporate restructuring and cost reduction “.

Last month, Musk announced that he wanted layoffs more than 14 thousand Tesla employees (more than 10 percent of the total), to keep the company “lean, innovative and hungry”. According to Musk, part of the management is not taking this cost-cutting task “seriously enough”. In the first quarter of 2024, Tesla reported a 10 percent drop in revenue, the first since 2020.

It is currently unclear what effects the elimination of the Supercharger section will have on the network of charging stations for electric cars, which has long been one of the reasons for Tesla’s technological advantage over the his competitors. Currently there are 50 thousand Supercharger charging stations worldwide and more than 15 thousand between the United States and Canada alone: ​​agreements have recently been signed with some competing companies including Ford, General Motors and Rivian to use Superchargers.

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