Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

Ongoing discussion [0] (71 points, 8 hours ago, 91 comments)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40209382">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40209382</a>

The article starts with &quot;Elon Musk has shut down the division that runs Tesla’s Supercharger business, dismissed two senior executives and fired hundreds more staff as the electric-car maker continues its restructuring amid a sharp downturn in the EV market.&quot;<p>I was thinking, &quot;sharp downturn in the EV market?&quot; So I looked up some stats and found &quot;US EV sales reached 1,119,251 in 2023, up from 760,329 in 2022, 462,247 in 2021, 245,586 in 2020, and 230,761 in 2019.&quot;<p>There&#x27;s no &quot;sharp downturn&quot;. It&#x27;s just people getting fed up with a fascist spokesperson, a product that has looked dated for years now, and better options available. I wish we still had decent journalists.

Perhaps Elon should step down? It seems his golden boy image is more than a little tarnished and he’s leaving bodies in his wake in sizable proportions.

“Any manager “who retains more than three people who don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” should resign, he added.”<p>This is interesting. Get the assessment for being excellent and necessary is linked to strategy and business plans . How does one assess trustworthiness ? Interesting to understand what a trustworthy test would look like !

I wonder if this has something to do with his China visit. Like is he outsourcing this to someone else like BYD?

Wasn&#x27;t this one of the things going well for tesla and positioning to actually not just be a car company?<p>When does SpaceX go to shit now and all that tax money subsidizing it go to waste?

Is this really true or just clickbait being bandied about?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;h5WgR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;h5WgR</a>

[dupe]

I wonder if someone on their team angered Elon, or if it’s just related to a new strategy.<p>Elon will properly rehire those he needs from the team via extra compensation as needed.

Remarkable thing here is that other vendors such as Rivian and Ford just joined up to the supercharging network, and now we have to wonder: if the majority (entirety?) of the supercharging team has been laid off, is this infrastructure that Rivian and Ford presumably paid to access going to start failing and (figuratively) rusting away?