growler23
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New Bucc-ees mascot: the CyberBeaverOr Buccees!
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New Bucc-ees mascot: the CyberBeaverOr Buccees!
Just signed up for a Cybertruck event at my nearest Service Centre here in Norway.
Found the info under Events on the Tesla website.
Crossing my fingers hoping I secured a spot!
When I saw Tinucci was praised in an article I should have guessed her days are numbered.Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs
Almost the entire Supercharger team is reportedly out.www.theverge.com
"Tinucci was notably responsible for the rollout of Tesla’s Supercharger network during her six years at the company, including efforts to get other companies to adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS) developed by Tesla. In his email, Musk says Tesla will still build new Superchargers and complete those already under construction."
I remember all that. My first official visit to China was in 1978, the year before formal US diplomatic relations were established. Because of a few oddities when the Bank of China invited me to go to Beijing, following several dinner exchanges between the Chinese Ambassador to the country I worked in at the time, they also invited my spouse. Once arriving an established in an official guest house, translators appeared for Arabic, Portuguese and English. Allegedly they did not know what to supply when comparing official status with citizenships for my spouse and myself. It was memorable! My bank swiftly became profitable in no small part due to the Bank of China."Only Nixon can go to China."
The same people who watch Fox News to get updates on what the Democratic Party are doing also get all their Tesla news from The VergeWhen I saw Tinucci was praised in an article I should have guessed her days are numbered.
I don't understand why Musk would lay off the entire supercharger team, like what was so wrong that literally everyone had to be let go? What is his plan to rebuild such a large team? Are supercharger deployments now on hold until they re-hire 500 new employees? Will Tesla be farming this out to a third party, that wouldn't be vertically integrated like Tesla normally is.
I think the "fire an entire team when the manager goes" thing depends on the issue(s) the manager was let go for.
If the manager's execution problems were associated with system approach, drive, style, etc... but the team is understood to be required going forward, then it may make sense to simply replace the manager and let him inherit the existing team and implement his improvements, etc...
But, if one of the manager's issues was building a large and/or unqualified team to support an approach that's not working or no longer in the direction the executive staff has decided to go, then I don't see much sense in retaining that team.
Leases are most common in higher prices vehicles but are: https://www.statista.com/download/MTcxNDQ5MzEwOCMjMSMjNDUzMTIyIyMxIyNwZGYjI1N0YXRpc3RpYw==Interest rate isn't particularly high in China to begin with, lowest it has ever been the last 5 years.
Also from a 2010 article, only 10% of buyers in China get a car loan, number is over 80% in the US.
Almost any buyer would screw it up. Tesla has been running it about as close to perfectly as one can imagine. Meanwhile, all competitors have consistently demonstrated their chargers aren't reliable in various ways.Or maybe he's already struck a deal to sell of the entire supercharger operation to Chevron, Shell or BP?
Exactly, buyers will look to recoup the cost and make profits by charging more, doing less maintenance and not building new ones at the rate and quality that tesla has.Almost any buyer would screw it up. Tesla has been running it about as close to perfectly as one can imagine. Meanwhile, all competitors have consistently demonstrated their chargers aren't reliable in various ways.
Or maybe he's already struck a deal to sell of the entire supercharger operation to Chevron, Shell or BP?
keep calm
I read the article and didn’t see the why. Sure overall sales decline etc could necessitate production force reduction but the demand for superchargers has not decreased and I thought increasing. The supercharger team is still much needed and probably should be expanded. So why the firing?
Sure, outside of making money on charging and maintaining the most reliable SC network.It's not a Tesla game changer or benefit if everyone gets to use it.
If 500 people are let go at once, for a categorical reason and not their individual performance, simple math suggests not all 500 of them were 'bad employees'.
Instead, it seems to me more likely that the way the Supercharger program was being run required a complete overhaul, and the Executive / Elon felt that it was easier to start with a clean slate than to try and individually cull / transfer individuals over to the desired target operating model.
Also, maybe Elon learnt that firing huge numbers discriminately - like he did at Twitter (Isaacson book: "give me the list of people who aren't hardcore so we can fire them") - causes more strife than cutting a whole team. It's.... cleaner this way.
Both arguments suggest this is more of a 'strategic reallocation of resources' rather than tactical, performance-based firings IMHO.
People still don't understand Elon's management style and how good he understands what the company needs.
What if Exxon and Shell are going to partner up with Tesla and implement Superchargers at +50% of their locations in US/World?
It seems to me it's be fastest way and Elon is right, no need for 500ppl in the Supercharger team no matter what they did and their qualifications. It's now a problem of manufacture them and get them shipped. Plug and Play Superchargers, all with battery storage. Win-Win for everyone.