Tesla Just Fired Their Entire Charging Team! Impacts, Future Supercharger Sites, & Industry Shakeup

One of the long term affects of this that I have not seen discussed much is the harm done to Tesla's ability to attract the best talent. Tesla just fired an entire department that was inarguably the best in the industry. Why on earth would anyone who is high value talent want to go work for someone who has shown a total lack of appreciation for industry leading talent?

As a Tesla customer, this was a stupid decision. The main reasons buying a Tesla was its charging network was expanding. So here in Australia, we are very thin on chargers.😢

I have been a follower and fan of Elon's work since 2010 which led me to defend many of his highly questionable decisions over the past 4 years. For those of us following from the beginning it was easy to look at his great early work and give him the benefit of many, many doubts believing that his goals were noble. I can no longer do so. Since the payout of the first huge compensation package his actions appear more ego driven and less (if at all) focused on the mission statement of Tesla. The world needed a mass produced truck at a reasonable price and he took enormous company resources to create a polarizing, impractical, expensive and extremely hard to produce product of his ego. He has now cancelled the affordable EV and vaporized the most successful charging roll out on the planet. As he maneuvers for more ownership of the company and massive compensation packages he cuts costs by eliminating the income of the working class employees and raises the prices to consumers. His actions and leadership no longer represent anything noble or remotely impressive. I anticipate it will become harder and harder for him to convince everyone he's the smartest person in the room as we witness his dissension into the simplest of human failures, greed and ego.

Volkswagen/EA needs to hire these people and put the supercharger network out of business.

It baffles me. Tesla could’ve just spun off the charging network as an independent company and many automakers would’ve jumped all over it!

when someone asks me why i chose Tesla over another car manufacturer, I always say it was because of charging network.

Yup the layoffs keep coming if you live in CA keep an eye out on the WARN act. Tesla isn’t done with the layoffs until June.

This is mind boggling. Let’s remember this when it’s time to vote on a new compensation package.

I agree with commenters who point out that Tesla is proving to be an unreliable business partner. It sounds like this layoff decision was hasty and not thought out. Usually, layoffs at a company of this size are planned approx 3 months in advance from a variety of angles. The fact that bounce-back emails didn't even redirect recipients to an alternate Again, that should have been planned in advance.

Kyle, I have a 22 model y. I agree with everything you say! The charging network needs to be increased and upgraded all over. I have driven all across the Midwest and it is so obvious that growth is NEEDED! Keep up the great work! … George 😀👍👍😀

I was accepted for a service advisor position but I declined it because I had other goals after sending my application. Now, everyone at the service center who told me I should really consider taking this opportunity to work for Tesla has left. When I brought my Model Y in for service, they were all gone. LOL. I wonder if I would have been fired too if I had accepted the job four months ago, before these recent layoffs.

Don't panic...don't panic, OK, PANIC!! 😂

Who the hell would want to work for Tesla at this point, knowing they could randomly lose their job at any time?

“That’s a bold strategy Cotton. Let’s see how it works out for them.”

I bought my first EV 3 years ago. My wise wife said "anything but Tesla". I did some digging and agreed, for a combination of reasons, but Elon was a big one. An interesting irony is that I'd just listened to the Harvard Business Review article on "How Bad Leaders Get Worse over Time". I thought about Elon in listening to that article.

I owned three Model S's in the past. I watched the company go from customer-first to stockholder-first-and-only. I was tempted to order my new photovoltaic system from Tesla until this news came about and it reminded me why that was a stupid idea. You just never know when Mr. Mercurial Musk is going to pull support and rip you, the customer, off. I think the reason he let go of the entire team was to demonstrate his power. Rebecca Tinucci was probably told to lay off a chunk of her team, the team that has continued to out-perform as far as everyone can tell, and she resisted. I think Musk decided to just wipe them all out as a demonstration to the other Tesla executives: "Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction" By the way, you know what no one has talked about? What about all of the service people that were laid off? Tesla doesn't have enough service centers nor techs to service the cars they have out right now, and they made it just that much harder to get your car serviced into the future.

Teslas supercharger network is what really sets them apart. So seamless. Without it they wouldnt have gotten where they are today...

I’m just curious how demoralizing this must be for other Tesla employees. They must be wondering, am I next? Hard and passionate working for a person or company is not always well rewarded

He's gonna do a twitter on tesla I'm pretty sure elon is insane at this point

I just want to know what's going to happen charge port wise. Are automakers going to revert their plans from going to NACS and rollback to the standard CCS connector?