Network problem
When the CEO of Tesla Elon Musk has laid off numerous employees in recent weeks, it also got rid of virtually all members of the Supercharger team, who worked to develop the electric car maker’s vast network of electric vehicle chargers, which has annoyed , as one might expect, Tesla owners.
Now that Musk is signaling he’s moving toward AI and robo-taxis, recently laid-off former employees who serviced and maintained the chargers are sounding the alarm about the network’s likely decline. Inside electric vehicles reports, as there aren’t many service technicians left after Musk added a circular saw to the company’s roster.
“My personal opinion is that the quality will deteriorate,” said one former worker. Inside electric vehicles. “Customers will start to see issues last longer than they are used to.”
Worldwide, Tesla has more than 50,000 Supercharger stands. It’s unclear how many charger service technicians Tesla employed before this wave of abrupt layoffs, but workers were apparently working around the clock and even skipping time with their families, according to Inside electric vehicles. Now imagine a skeleton screw trying to play whack-a-mole on any problems that might arise in the Tesla Supercharger network.
“We couldn’t keep up. And now the network is even bigger,” the former employee said. Inside electric vehicles. “Now guess what? There are even more consumers. There are going to be a lot more problems that could arise.”
A cloudy future
The big problem with Musk moving away from Superchargers is that other automakers like Ford rely on the stands to charge the batteries of their own electric vehicles. Other automakers that need Superchargers include automakers such as Kia, Honda and Jaguar.
But automakers aren’t fully hedging their bets on Tesla, where Musk has been so erratic that he has at times alarmed other Tesla executives. Last year, a consortium of automakers came together and announced they would build 30,000 chargers under the Ionna brand.
This is a good thing. Even though electric vehicle sales are stagnating at the moment, they remain an important part of tackling carbon emissions and tackling climate change – so any investment in infrastructure ultimately benefits us all.
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