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Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Maybe I skimmed that too quickly, but it looks like this is just the execs on top of those departments, not the people working within them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Musk told workers that Tesla "will continue to build out some new Supercharger locations, where critical, and finish those currently under construction."

Sounds to me like the plan is to finish what is already under contract and do no more. I sure am glad the US authorities committed to that north american charger standard... what's even the status on getting a full specification for it including third-party development at this point anyway?

I can't pull a quote for the new vehicle development team's situation because Tesla basically just keeps making the Model 3 with barely even incremental improvements to it, and even that one has totally inconsistent build quality vehicle to vehicle. Unless someone thinks the Cybertruck is going to save them -- hah.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I absolutely hate that Tesla was successful in lobbying the government to use NACS instead of CCS. You can tell that it was lobbyists because seemingly overnight, the government changed from giving grants for CCS (never owned by a single company) to only giving grants for NACS (a proprietary standard that was opened to other companies so that Tesla wouldn't have to pay to change their chargers). When the government decided to change to NACS, NACS specifications hadn't even been sent to other companies yet. A new, better CCS plug was even being developed, one that on paper could handle more than NACS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

It's kinda buried:

All of which makes the decision to get rid of senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci—along with her entire team—a bit of a head-scratcher.