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Tesla’s Supercharger layoffs couldn’t have come at a worse time

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Umar Shakir
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Bounced emails. Stalled projects. Delayed adapters. These are the immediate effects of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's absolutely hard core" approach to cost cutting, which has resulted in at least 500 layoffs from the company's Supercharger business, including the division's top executive, Rebecca Tinucci.

The timing couldn't have been worse. Tesla was on the verge of making its vehicle charging plug the de facto standard in North America, and its competitors and stakeholders are counting on a smooth ride. But Musk claims the leaner team will focus less on deploying new Supercharger locations and instead focus on 100 percent uptime." How that will translate into reality is unclear, with laid-off employees telling InsideEVs that reduced manpower...

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