2024-05-02 19:04:26
Electric vehicle charging network construction team ‘air disassembly’
GM adopts Tesla NACS, “We are monitoring the situation”
Foreign media reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk suddenly fired about 500 people on the Tesla electric vehicle fast charging network (supercharger) construction team.
According to the Associated Press and CNN on the 1st (local time), many Tesla Supercharger team employees confirmed their dismissal through social media the day before. The Information, a technology media outlet that first reported the news of the restructuring, reported that Musk notified managers of the layoffs by email.
“Tesla has laid off its entire charging organization,” William Navarro Jameson, head of Tesla’s strategic charging program, told X.
“In the middle of the night, I and all of my colleagues on the Tesla Global Charging team learned that the Tesla Charging organization no longer exists,” Lane Chaplin, senior manager of Tesla’s charging department, wrote in a post on LikeIn.
Accordingly, it is expected that there will be a blow to the electric vehicle industry, which has decided to share Tesla’s superchargers in North America. Ford, General Motors (GM), Rivian, and Volvo in Europe have announced that they will adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) standard for charger connection instead of the CCS standard, which was the American standard.
Ford, which was the first in the industry to sign a contract with Tesla, said that there has been no change in its plans to join Supercharger.
GM took a more cautious stance, saying in a statement, “We are continuously monitoring changes and potential impacts to the Tesla Supercharger team.”
Regarding this, CNN analyzed, “With Tesla suddenly firing its supercharger team, doubts are growing about the future of one of the largest charging networks in the U.S., which other automakers such as GM and Ford have also announced they will use.”
The Associated Press pointed out, “This move has raised concerns in the industry that electric vehicles from other automakers will have difficulty joining Tesla’s network.”
In relation to this, Musk said through
Tesla is undergoing a large-scale restructuring to reduce costs. On the 15th of last month, Musk announced that he would reduce 10% of his employees worldwide. Tesla has approximately 140,000 employees worldwide. As part of this, it was announced that about 6,000 people would be laid off in California (about 3,300 people) and Texas (about 2,700 people).
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