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Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

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Re: Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

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Post by kybernetikos »

grakker wrote: post #47

The article starts with "Elon Musk has shut down the division that runs Tesla’s Supercharger business, dismissed two senior executives and fired hundreds more staff as the electric-car maker continues its restructuring amid a sharp downturn in the EV market." I was thinking, "sharp downturn in the EV market?" So I looked up some stats and found "US EV sales reached 1,119,251 in 2023, up from 760,329 in 2022, 462,247…

I think maybe it's more an overcapacity with more manufacturers getting models out there plus the early adopter market getting near saturated and the rate of growth dropping a lot and that its not fully crossed the chasm to mainstream yet.

So it's not that adoption as a whole is in trouble but more that any one ev maker is going to find it harder to make a lot of sales at the moment.

And it's definitely the case that a big chunk of tesla stock value was tied up with elons brand which is looking more like a problem than a benefit these days.

Re: Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

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Post by belter »

thegrim33 wrote: post #32
ra7 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happens to almost every post that’s somewhat negative about Tesla. They mysteriously disappear from the front page within minutes even after getting a lot of engagement. I’m pretty sure some nefarious flagging is happening and I hope dang takes a look at it.

I usually flag posts like these after a scan through the comments, as even though the article is tech related, the comments on this type of topic are usually uninsightful, 90% of the time just being typical political/social echo chamber warfare, an excuse for people to post low quality comments shitting on the persona non grata, in this case, Elon. These types of topics on HN usually accomplish nothing other than inc…

Flagging is not for discussions unworthy of your standards. Check the guidelines.

Re: Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

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Post by weekay »

“Any manager “who retains more than three people who don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” should resign, he added.”

This is interesting. Get the assessment for being excellent and necessary is linked to strategy and business plans . How does one assess trustworthiness ? Interesting to understand what a trustworthy test would look like !

Re: Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

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Post by eleveriven »

bboygravity wrote: post #20
tahoeskibum wrote: post #3

Is this really true or just clickbait being bandied about?

Very legit question that everybody should ask themselves when reading anything Musk related in 2024. In this case it seems true.

I think we can say the same thing about anything now..

Re: Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

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Post by dang »

yifanl wrote: post #11
gnabgib wrote: post #2

Ongoing discussion [0] (71 points, 8 hours ago, 91 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209382

Curiously, linked discussion has been downranked to Page 19 at time of posting.

Users flagged this one—no doubt because these stories are so extremely repetitive.

Re: Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

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Post by mikrotikker »

grakker wrote: post #47

The article starts with "Elon Musk has shut down the division that runs Tesla’s Supercharger business, dismissed two senior executives and fired hundreds more staff as the electric-car maker continues its restructuring amid a sharp downturn in the EV market." I was thinking, "sharp downturn in the EV market?" So I looked up some stats and found "US EV sales reached 1,119,251 in 2023, up from 760,329 in 2022, 462,247…

Got a source for him being a Fascist?
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