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Tesla is laying off 285 employees in Buffalo, New York as part of a broad restructuring
Earlier this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent a memo company-wide saying that the automaker would be reducing more than 10% of its global workforce.
Empire state taxpayers doled out around$1 billion to build the Buffalo factory, including equipment purchases, hoping to support the creation of thousands of high-tech jobs in the region. Instead of manufacturing solar panels as their primary business in Buffalo, Tesla assembles Supercharger equipment there and moved part of its Autopilot data labeling team there previously. Early this month, Reuters reported that Tesla would be focusing efforts on robotaxi technology and scrapping plans to produce a more affordable EV.
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