Tesla has fired the entire Supercharger team

Uncertain consequences:

The Supercharger manager and almost the entire staff of around 500 people have to find something else to do.

In yet another email from CEO Elon Musk, this time to the company’s management team, it became clear that Tesla’s acclaimed Supercharger CEO Rebecca Tinucci must go.

It wrote first The Information [for abonnenter]then Reuters and Electrek this week.

Completes started

Tinucci has regularly figured high on various “most important person in the industry” awards, but is still considered redundant when Tesla carries out its extensive downsizing.

On her way out the doors, she is joined by almost the entire Supercharger team, around 500 people in total.

According to the email from Musk, Tesla will complete the construction of already started charging facilities, as well as add a few new ones as well.

He elaborated a bit https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1785406795814510785:

– Tesla still plans to develop the Supercharger network, just at a slower pace as far as new facilities are concerned.

Musk further writes that 100 percent uptime, as well as expansion of existing facilities, are more important for Tesla going forward.

In other words, stations that have been announced but not started can be skipped. Electrek has already registered that Tesla is dropping four planned facilities in New York.

“A Kick”

The news was received as “a kick in the gut” by CEO Andrew Pinter at subcontractor Bullet EV Charging Solutions, according to Reuters.

Pinter nevertheless follows up with optimism:

– Tesla has already received funds from the authorities to expand the network, and it is unthinkable that Musk would say no to something that is, in practice, free money. It is possible that the Supercharger team will be resurrected in a bigger, tougher and more Musk-like version, he says.

Both GM and Ford, which have thrown themselves at the American Tesla charging standard so that their models can use the Supercharger network, have sent out press releases that the companies’ plans are fixed – despite Tesla’s new course.

● Motor is not aware of any consequences for the Supercharger network in Norway. But the global downsizing also reached here – quite quickly.