Seems installers and manufacturers have been caught off guard and have lost any contacts that could assure them. Some people don’t seem to realize that Musk has shown Tesla under his leadership is not a reliable partner for third parties. A terribly damaging move that Tesla will need to claw back from.
by enfuego138
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TLDR:
Kyle reads some messages from industry insiders. One works for an electrical utility and says they now have 20 MW of super chargers that were in construction permitting stage in limbo because they have no contacts still at Tesla and they have no idea who to reach out to.
Another message is from a person that works in the EV industry and there is talk of shock from car companies that agreed to switch to NACS and that some car companies are considering rolling back to CCS1 because they feel like Tesla has broken their trust.
This same person says that this is MORE disruptive to the industry than when Ford agreed to switch to NACS in the first place.
Edit: Forgot to mention Kyle thinks the maintenance team is still intact so current chargers are not at risk of being ignored.
Tesla’s charging network infrastructure and tech was *the one compelling advantage* Tesla had that almost took me into their showroom. Of course, then Elon went all right-wing-nut and the whole notion of buying a Tesla went out the window.
Before clicking the link, I’m predicting… 38 minutes. Let’s find out.
Edit: Wow, only 20 minutes! So succinct from Out of Spec!
If the charing infra does not accelerate to facilitate interstate/long distance travel then this will be my last EV. There is literally no reason to buy a Tesla or any other EV if there is no charging. I will happily let Tesla die and move on to a legacy Mnf and sit in a PHEV or a Hybrid. This seems to be a case of elon ‘Cut off one’s nose to spite one’s face’ reaction.
Tesla’s board needs to kick Elon out, or demote him and install a real CEO that knows how to run a company. This uncertainty and random stupid moves is damaging them badly.
Own charging network was essential for bootstrapping EV as feasible transportation on long distances.
However with inflow of numerous new players (taking EU perspective) – building own network is more questionable approach. Utilities and owners/administrators of highway rest areas/petrol stations will be in pole position when comes to network expansion.
Out of all silly decisions Tesla made recently, this could hold water.
I used to like his channel but there have been hints that he and his family are ‘right wing’ for lack of a better term. His channel is still informative nonetheless but this is always in the back of my mind now.
Cue the copium from the Musk fans…go!
Day after day it seems more likely that Musk really is heavily into drugs and makes calls on a whim
Preparing bankruptcy. We will be there
To think that the guy who has been part time CEO and for the last 3 years pissing on his main customer base, is the one firing the best working part of that company. He is even supposed not only to be kept t his position, but rewarded with 50 billions. This is the next enron, as stated by the that Facebook guy.
Hey, great job building out a charge network that is so desirable that we won the standards competition and you’ve convinced most of the other car makers to adopt our format and pay us for access to our chargers in addition to all their customers paying us for charging. Flawless victory.
By the way, you’re all fired. I guess you’ll go work for my direct competitors now.
It makes sense to me. With NACS becoming a national standard, it doesn’t make any sense for Tesla to maintain their own charging network just like it doesn’t make any sense for GMC to have their own fueling stations.
I’m not getting my Volvo-NACS adapter this summer, am I?
Now he’s wearing a short sleeve hoodie. Man, I want to know why all he wears are hoodies. It’s like a Seinfeld episode.
The reason this happened is because DC fast charging is not profitable without subsidies. Every car Tesla sells subsidizes the supercharger network. Without growing sales, Tesla will not build more chargers.
Follow up reports are that Tesla let go 20% of the supercharger team, not 100%. Which makes more sense.
When I got here there were 69 votes and 69 comments. Very apropos.
I don’t care how low my Tesla shares are going to take a 💩, but I’ll look forward to the day when this fucker is no longer the CEO.
I wonder how difficult it would be if we pooled together and formed a supercharging co-op.
Tesla is nuking the company to pad the balance sheet to pad the stock.
He is trying to bribe large shareholders to approve his 55 billion dollar theft of company stock.
The SEC is extremely negligent. They wanted to remove him as CEO over a meaningless tweet, but having a judge rule he and the board tried to defraud shareholders for 55 billions dollars in free stock is being ignored.
It makes no sense.
Coming soo from the former Tesla team a new company.
I don’t get why the institutional investors are letting all this happen. Elon is part time running the company and he’s running it like a child and reportedly the board is a bunch of Elon loyalists which is not what Tesla needs. Are the shareholders just gonna let Elon tweet Teslas lead down the drain?
….WHY?!!!
Why would you let EVERYONE in that group go? A whole lot of knowledge just walked out the door that can’t be recovered quickly.
Sounds like much ado about nothing. They did not announce that they are no longer making new stations or expanding the network.
If anything, this underlines the importance of not having one entity be a lynchpin for all charging infrastructure, and the additional importance of not skimping on the quality of charging station design.