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Elon Musk axed the entire Tesla Supercharger team after their division chief defied orders and said no to more layoffs
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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Man if I were a competing EV company or charging network, now would be a really good time to get some of the best talent there is. The supercharger network is objectively good, and now the people who actually made it good are imminently hireable.
Man sometimes I wish I could be as box of rocks stupid as musk and still make money.
This is one of the core problems. Besides Rivian there ARE NO other EV companies that are building their own charging network. And Rivian isn't really doing massive rollouts of its "Adventure" charging network like Tesla is/was.
The other companies running charging networks exclusively have different motivations and approaches. None of them are swimming in money needed to build out like Tesla Supercharging was. These charging only company's only revenue stream is charging fees, which is not really much yet because EV penetration is still fairly low.
Agreed but a lot of charging networks really could hire some talent out of Tesla just to work on their UI and other uptime measures. Even if they don’t deploy more stations, just getting their existing stations running well would be such a coup. Once folks have the reliability of Tesla chargers at all other chargers, it’s really quite impressive how many chargers we have already.
No I agree with GP here. The way problem has always been they expected to do it on the cheap because of low profit percentage. It’s not just that they don’t know how to build a good ui or a reputable product: it’s that they never see the need to invest there. Why would that change now?
I don’t know if Tesla superchargers are a profitable or close to it, but they clearly benefitted by Tesla being willing to spend enough to do the job right
You're assuming Tesla has been hiring the best rather than the cheapest. Musk's stingy nature has been eroding quality at the company for years.