Is there some concern in Teslas financials that makes you think they're incapable of containing to expand their profitable charging network or are you just defending whatever Elon does as correct because Elon did it?
He’s the boss. He has more information than you or I. He has a proven track record moving Tesla forward, not you or I.
I don’t care what you think about Tesla. I care what he thinks. I care what he does. I have no need to question his motives; again historical evidence. If he ever does something that my sensibilities just can’t navigate, I’ll quietly exit the building and be done with it all.
But nobody else would.
In large part nobody else still is
The nextr "big" charging network- EA- only exists because VW cheated on emissions for years and was forced into it by a court.
It continues to suck as an alternative and there's no indication of that changing- same for all the other smaller players who have janky and unreliable charging.
The move of all the OEMs to Tesla was because Tesla is the only affordable and reliable national charging network.
Why hit the brakes on that now? Especially when you've already gotten all the early adopters and need to get the MOST range anxious, and those without home charging, onto the "EVs are fine" train.... plus it's a profitable line of business so it's only ADDING to revenue.
You’re asking the wrong person. I can guess based on what I know about Elon and have observed, but a guess is useless. So, I’ll just wait until my guess is confirmed by Tesla or the reason becomes public knowledge.
The goal is to accelerate the worlds transition to sustainable transport.
A larger and more reliable charging network is fundamental to that goal
Since when did "Eh, let someone else figure it out" become the mission statement?
Well, the goal either didn’t change and Elon is simply going to go about it differently, or it did and we’ll find out at some point.
We've been hearing the YUGE FSD MONEY story for 5 years now since the original autonomy day.
Still ain't here-- and there's plenty of financial models showing even if Tesla got L4 on the road this year (which continues to look incredibly unlikely) it'll be years still before revenue streams are actually that big (and potentially not near as big as the folks who think everyone will just stop owning cars)
I didn’t define what the bigger revenue would be. Did I? Nope. Did not.
As long as Tesla has been public I’ve seen hundreds of revenue, valuation, business etc… models. NOBODY has ever gotten it right. So guess how much credence I’m giving to all the RT et al models?
NONE of that is a reason to abandon a different revenue stream that's already going and remaining profitable as it grows.
So you say. I’ve already established I don’t care what you think. You don’t have anymore information than the rest of us, which is way less than Elon.
You can't even make the excuse of "It was taking up people better used elsewhere in the company" since they didn't move them- they just fired them.
I’m not looking for excuses. If they were laid off, they needed to be laid off for whatever reason we’re not currently privy to. I wish them the best of luck finding new jobs. They’ve got two months worth of wages and health benefits in their pockets. And if they’re the best of the best, they’ll have jobs within days.
Not pedantic, basic facts and logic.
If you say so.
Heck you contradict yourself right there--- seemingly acknowledging Teslas solution is WAY better than anyone elses-- then saying let the others- who you just told us suck- do it.
It’s not a contradiction. Tesla’s way is the best. But as has been stated here ad nauseum for YEARS, Tesla can’t do it alone. Tesla showed how to do a SuperCharger Network, willingly helped, hasn’t said they are stopping expansion - Elon clearly explained a change in focus (for now - he didn’t say forever), and in the meantime others can pick up the gauntlet or not. No contradiction. Just as all fridges are not made the same, neither apparently are EV charging networks.
How does a move that cedes future growth of new charging locations- vital to increasing EV adoption rates- to inferior solutions that anger customers help the mission rather than hurt it?
Asking the wrong person. I don’t know the whole of Elon’s plan. But again, for someone so pedantic, you sure like to be oblivious when it suits you. Elon didn’t specify that the current direction of the network would be forever. Just pulling randomly from my butt; I imagine the logic is that he’ll correct all the current use issues, THEN start to select locales for filling in empty spaces - that people have been complaining about for years now and were not addressed by the 500 (which they probably should have, huh?) - and so on expanding it so it becomes more useful for all.
. You do you dude. You are just trolling for a fight. Whatever gets you there. 
