Gabriel Walker
May 12, 2024
After being entrusted with something unattainable at the beginning of the year, Tesla’s Supercharger team has entirely been fired by Elon Musk.
“We were on an exponential path,” a former member of the team said during an interview with TechCrunch, adding that the new objectives desired by the company were “super-duper crazy.”
“Every time they upped the metric, we met it,” he said while expressing grief over the dismissal of the whole team. The layoffs were originally announced in April by Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, despite the remaining profitable last year.
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The leading electric vehicles (EV) maker currently has a network of over 50,000 charging ports around the world, out of which 25,000 are installed in the US only.
Being widely available, well-kept and an unperturbed EV facility for its customers, it will not be an overstatement to call the Supercharger network the undisputed king of EV fast charging.
The project has been promising and delivering what people expected from it, changing people's perspective about EVs while dislodging their concerns regarding range long routes.
The wipeout sends both the shareholders and former Tesla employees into frenzy while compelling them to ponder over its effect on EV owners and the company.
Although the recent price cuts had a significant impact on sales that were 55% down in this year's first quarter compared to that of last year, the company has been reeling with losses for a while as its sales still fail to meet the targets the company casually achieves.
