Tesla Pullback Puts Onus on Others to Build Electric Vehicle Chargers | The automaker led by Elon Musk is no longer planning to take the lead in expanding the number of places to fuel electric vehicles. It’s not clear how quickly other companies will fill the gap.
by silence7
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What happened to “Tesla is an energy company”?
I guess that was superseded by “Tesla is an AI company”.
Tesla fast chargers are not future proof or upgradeable. The sites require expensive transformer upgrade plus labor for trenching.
Tesla abandoning j3400 network will only hurt their own customers. It’s a shame elon went this route instead of spinning it off and selling it to a competitor.
The full shift to AI and robotaxis at this point seems a bit silly given the regulatory environment.
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I think we’ve officially hit peak Tesla in the EV space.
If they’re no longer planning to take the lead on charging, why would every other manufacturer in the US spend millions upon millions to adopt their plug? We could argue the technical reasons for/against that all day, but the business case for doing that seems to be a lot weaker.
I think the headline and the article are mistaken in portraying this move as primarily a shift in strategy. The stories based on more discussions with insiders are reporting that firing the whole group was a retaliatory move, either lashing out impulsively against a group leader who dared push back against His commands, or wanting to make an example of that group to show others what could happen to them if they don’t bow down to Him.
Of course, the implications are similar as far as how charging infrastructure will need to proceed, but we needn’t assume that there’s a rational master plan behind it.
People think they know tesla better than Elon himself 😅
I suspect that musk is doing this to cripple EV expansion now that he is trump’s lackey.
I am not defending Tesla , I don’t even know what Elon musk is thinking…lol. But there is no gap and urgent need for more superchargers in the US , at least in those states that EV is popular. Never had any problems charging my car anywhere. We will see what’s gonna happened after it’s open to everyone. But, I don’t understand why solely relying on Tesla to build the infrastructure, doesn’t make sense.
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Musk has gotten more and more right wing. Did oil companies get to him and is he slowly dismantling everything he has?
The other car mfgs all saw that a fast DC charging network was key to EV sales which is why the asked Tesla for access to Tesla’s SC network.
With Federal government now paying for a large part of an EV charging station via the [NEVI program](https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/nevi/ev_deployment_plans/index.cfm?format=list#map), you would hope GM and Ford would partner and spearhead the build out. GM announced a partnership with EVGo for 2,000 chargers a while ago.
NEVI should be ramping up installs from other players like municipalities, parking authorities, real estate developers, truck stop operators which will add to the 500,000 proposed under NEVI by 2026.
News media sucks. In 12 months they’ll be praising Tesla and Elon again when the plan slowly unveils itself.
Starting to wonder if the whole reason behind this is force companies that says, I can build out a SC location in X amt of days, but if I go over that preset amt of days, the contractor starts losing money on the deal. So a $500k site becomes a $250k site with contractor baring all the losses.
I foresee lawsuits coming out shortly for Tesla!
I guess Tesla realizes their tech is outdated and can’t be bothered to make the investment to replace every single supercharger.
Plus after letting their entire design team go, Tesla also gives up on updating their out of date battery tech as well.
Bye NACS, the rest of us will be using 350kw+ 800V actual fast charging.
Tesla is really messing up here. They should’ve been the go-to place for public charging long after all their cars get recalled. This was one thing they had a total advantage in. Other vehicle companies were just going to start using Tesla charging system.
hope he goes and leaves us
This will be a temporary. Tesla is going to replace the supercharging employees. If you look at the last time Elon purged the company, shortly after they actually had a sharp rise in head count along with an over doubling of production. We also don’t actually know how many supercharger related positions there are at Tesla because they don’t publish those numbers.