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Tesla laid disconnected hundreds of labor connected its electrical conveyance Supercharger squad this week. File Photo by Brian Kersey/UPI | License Photo
May 1 (UPI) -- Tesla laid disconnected hundreds of labor connected its Supercharger team, casting uncertainty complete nan task that provides electrical conveyance charging for aggregate manufacturesrs.
While Tesla has not fixed overmuch information astir nan layoffs, Tesla labor took to societal media connected Tuesday astir nan layoffs, including X, which is owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
"Confirmed -- Tesla, Elon Musk [have] fto spell of our full charging statement go," William Navarro Jameson, a strategical charging programs lead astatine Tesla said connected X. "What this intends for nan charging network, NACS and each nan breathtaking activity we were doing crossed nan industry, I don't yet know. What a chaotic thrust it has been."
Musk posted connected X that his institution was not stepping distant from its Supercharger web pinch nan layoffs.
"Tesla still plans to turn nan Supercharger network, conscionable astatine a slower gait for caller locations and much attraction connected 100% uptime and description of existing locations," he said.
It is believed that about 500 labor were laid off from nan captious Supercharger team. It had been thought that Tesla was successful nan process of boosting its Supercharger portion aft a woody pinch Ford and General Motors allowing its vehicles to complaint connected nan network.
Tesla's stocks tumbled almost 6% connected Tuesday aft nan news collapsed astir nan supercharger team.
The cuts are a continuation of cuts Musk promised past period erstwhile he told labor that he would slash payroll by 10% successful an effort to slim down nan EV giant.
