Thekiwi
Active Member
There’s a good chance it is similar to the 3000 layoffs rumour in Berlin (which turned out to be a couple of hundred): highly exaggerated.
How could the Supercharger team be 500 man to start with? AFAIK, most of the work neccessary to open a SUC (landscaping and digging and such, even setting up the transformers) is done by local contractors. So those 500 man would mostly be maintenance and planning. At 6300 open sites, that’s about 1 employee per 10 open sites. Let’s say less than 1000 sites in planning/construction according to supercharge.info. That means 1 employee per 2 sites in planning/construction. IIRC there were Tesla job openings for planners stating tens of concurrent projects.
What about the people that actually make all the supercharger hardware? That would be a large number. Maybe its all been outsourced to Tesla China (or a third party in China).