Elon Musk’s shock firing of Supercharger team sparks broader fears about the future of the EV industry–‘Tesla is yielding the charging crown’
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Elon Musk’s shock firing of Supercharger team sparks broader fears about the future of the EV industry–‘Tesla is yielding the charging crown’
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To who? It ain’t any of the ones around right now. They all suck at their job.
He is such a huge disappointment. When I look back at the Model S unveil, the Model 3 unveil and the Supercharger unveil I see a totally different person than the total jackoff we have today.
That does not make sense. Isn’t the supercharger network one of the things they are doing best? Or is NACS being the standard now foreshadowing competition that will make it unprofitable to run?
>“Tesla’s charging business needs to service twice as many customers while complexity will effectively quadruple as it seeks to accommodate a range of different brands. So its team needs more resources—not less.”
EV is up and running, nothing can stop it now. There will be shake up’s of the market and wake-up calls for many brands but I don’t see the future in danger for EV’s in general. Look at the thermal car industry, so many brands are gone and some came back even after bankruptcies….
Elon is holding Tesla and its shareholders in hostage.
“Give me my $45B or you going down with me”
Hope ChargePoint takes us as an opportunity to push and look better to prospective investors.
I’m starting to think letting a conspiracy loving conservative run an electric car company was a bad idea.
Even if Tesla were “yielding the charging crown,” no one in the United States is remotely positioned to compete. This is like an article saying “Google is yielding the search crown,” and then looking at Bing trying to fit square blocks into a circular hole.
I won’t be surprised if the Supercharger network, despite Elon’s statement about a “slower ramp,” still grows faster than any other charging network in 2024.
What happened to their plug becoming the standard in North America? That seemed like it would basically turn them into the only “gas station” in town and should allow them to print money? Why would they fire the entire team?
“the ev industry” isn’t tesla. Please stop talking.
It has nothing to do with economy or EV future. It’s just tantrum thrown by a single manchild.
The global economy is sinking this year. Has anybody noticed most companies are laying off? Rivian delayed plans to build that new factory.
Companies are tightening the belt preparing for this downswing. It’s not isolated to Tesla.
The other automakers in the space are not obviously headed by tantrum-throwing manbabies, so maybe we can just not conflate one unfortunate company with the entire industry.
The ship is sinking. The rapid departure of executive team members along with cutting the Super Charger team couldn’t be any more of a red flag that he is in a death spiral to pull of this pay day and GTFO.
Outsourcing it
Other EV Charging Companies: “You mean we have the opportunity to hire the *entire* Supercharger team?”
So? Ford and GM and third parties are amping it up. All it means is that Tesla will no longer be the deciding factor in EV infrastructure.
and the 56 billion options package? i guess it’s still in play!
a few days before he did this someone wrote an article saying that Tesla’s future was probably in charging rather than cars. it looks like Elon is making a $500 billion bet on robotaxis. I am very skeptical.
Pretty fluffy headline talking about conceding the crown when their pulled back plans are probably still more than all of their competition combined.
People fail to realize just how far ahead they are.
So I wish the team would be kept in place? Sure. But this isn’t going to stop them from advancing.
Here’s the chance for someone else to step up and build out a competing coast to coast charging infrastructure….
Clearly, the press needs to stop using Tesla as any kind of benchmark for the EV industry / market.
When we set out looking for an EV a couple years ago, we struck Tesla off the starting list of options. Because Musk.
Yielding the charging crown.
Lol. Here come the Tesla killer articles and proclamations, except in charger form.