Tag: Supercharger

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff

By Chris Kirkham, Hyunjoo Jin and Abhirup Roy (Reuters) – The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters. After Tinucci had cut between 15% […]

Musk Brings Back Some Laid-Off Supercharger Team Employees

Tesla’s Fire & Hire: Musk Brings Back Some Laid-Off Supercharger Team Employees Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) reportedly started hiring back some of the around 500 members of its Supercharging team who were laid off last month. Max de Zegher, the director of charging for North America, is among the personnel who have been re-hired by Elon Musk, said Bloomberg. Apart from De Zegher, Rebecca […]

Tesla Rehires Some Supercharger Workers Weeks After Musk’s Cuts

(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. has begun hiring back some of the almost 500 members of its Supercharging team that Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk dismissed late last month. Most Read from Bloomberg Chief among the personnel who have returned is Max de Zegher, the director of charging for North America, according to people with knowledge […]

After Firing Entire Supercharger Team, Elon Musk Reverses Course and Says He’ll Be Spending $500 Million on Growing the Charging Network

Hard Charging After firing senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci along with her entire 500-person team last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reversed course, claiming the company is still committed to spending “well over” half a billion dollars to grow its flagship network of Superchargers. “That’s just on new sites and expansions, not […]

Making sense of Tesla’s Supercharger, autonomous strategies

Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has big plans to expand the EV maker’s Supercharger network by investing over $500 million into the project, according to a recent post on X. The irony lies in the fact that Tesla laid off a bulk of its Supercharger development team at the end of April. Gartner Vice President […]

BP looking to buy Tesla’s Supercharger sites in US, Bloomberg News reports

(Reuters) – BP’s electric charging unit is keen on buying Tesla’s Supercharging sites in the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. BP “is aggressively looking to acquire real estate to scale our network, which is a heightened focus following the recent Tesla announcement,” the report quoted Sujay Sharma, CEO of BP Pulse Americas, as […]