Just two weeks after laying off at least 14,000 employees, Tesla is now reportedly laying off hundreds more, including senior executives and the majority of its Supercharging team.
According to an email first reported by Information and then Electrek, the automaker's senior director of electric vehicle charging, Rebecca Tinucci, is leaving the company on Tuesday, along with most of the 500 people she supervised. Tesla's new vehicle program manager, Daniel Ho, is also there with his team. These reductions are in addition to recent 10 percent reduction in workforce – and Musk's email leaves room for more.
In the email sent to executives last night, Musk said he wants Tesla to be “absolutely uncompromising” about cuts, and that employees working under leaders who “clearly do not pass the test are excellent, necessary and trustworthy” would also be excluded. of a job. Although the extent of these new layoffs is unclear, Bloomberg previously reported that Tesla's total workforce reduction that began earlier this month could end up being up to 20 percent of its workforce, i.e. well over 20,000 employees.
Tinucci was notably responsible for the deployment of Tesla's Supercharger network during his six years at the company, including efforts to attract other companies adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS) developed by Tesla. In his email, Musk says Tesla will continue to build new Superchargers and complete those already under construction.
Others affected by the new layoffs include Daniel Ho, a decade-long Tesla veteran who served as director of vehicle programs and new product initiatives, and program director for Model S, 3 and Y vehicles. Most members of the public policy team led by former head of policy and business development Rohan Patel (who left the company in the previous round of layoffs) have also been made redundant.