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'Quality Is Going To Deteriorate': Laid-Off Tesla Employees On Superchargers' Future


Now-former Tesla employees tell InsideEVs about the chaos at the company, and why they worry about Supercharger quality and uptime.

Because he worked as a technician servicing Tesla's Superchargers, John thought he had job security, especially as that network started opening up to other automakers. Last year Tesla indicated that, on average, a Supercharger station is used some 320 times per week, a number that has surely gone up since then with the Magic Dock units allowing any EV to charge there and cars from Ford, Rivian and others due to use them more soon. However, in an email memo sent this week, CEO Elon Musk told employees that the company must be "absolutely hardcore about headcount and cost reduction."

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