Tesla has dismissed 3 entire teams: - Vehicle and new product development
- EV charging - Public policy Tesla had ONE bad quarter. Boom, they've laid off "at least" 10% of the workforce (I've read that it's really closer to 20%). They've also dumped 3 major development teams and their directors. The importance of the first two seems pretty obvious. As I read it, the public policy folks would be the ones to negotiate with governments for clearance to deploy those "robotaxis" that Tesla seems to have bet their future on. This after one bad quarter. It seems a little rash to me, but what do I know? In more detail: 1. Tesla has dismissed Daniel Ho, director of vehicle programs and new product introduction; and laid off his entire team. Ho had been with Tesla since 2013. 2. They fired senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci and laid off her entire team. Tinucci was hired in 2018. 3. Rohan Patel, vice president of public policy and business development, resigned earlier this month. Now Tesla has laid off the entire public policy team. Musk, in an email: "Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hardcore about headcount and cost reduction. While some on exec staff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so." Presumably (one hopes?) these functions will be taken over by some of Tesla's other "hardcore" (overworked) employees. Sure glad I'm not one of them. More info: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-to-lay-off-everyone-working-on- superchargers-new-vehicles/ or https://v.gd/lrDabh https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-musk-trims- senior-management-amid-more-layoffs-information-reports-2024-04-30/ or https://v.gd/YQoopg This article seems to suggest that with NACS becoming an industry standard, Tesla doesn't really need to participate any more: https://www.designnews.com/automotive-engineering/tesla-supercharger-layoffs- throw-industry-nacs-shift-into-turmoil or https://cntp.me/gPhNuPw ----- PS - Apart from the literal-more-than-decimation of Tesla's staff, this makes 5 top brass who've left lately. Some of them had fairly long tenure. In addition to the 3 above, their longtime vice president of investor relations, Martin Viecha, resigned recently. And earlier this month, Senior Vice President Drew Baglino left. Baglino was in charge of engineering batteries and motors. He'd been with Tesla for 18 years. Not exactly a rush for the exits, but still ... concerning. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. -- Wendell Berry = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
