There's been quite a few embellishments by the media:
1) that the 500 people was all of the supercharger team (as opposed to a subset). This is in fact even in the title.
2) that this affects maintenance of the network also (not just installations)
3) that this would affect the NACS rollout
There's not enough info yet to determine that. This post in the other thread doesn't source the info, but it suggests the move is a lot less doom and gloom than suggested.
The hardware does not work without the software? I’m not taking about the software team that works on teslas own software. The supercharger team was responsible for working with the other automakers to get their cars and back end software compatible with the Supercharger network. How does that...
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