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Paris Marx

Elon Musk is betting Tesla’s future on using self-driving fantasies to boost the share price instead of building a real car business. He just gutted the teams working on the Supercharger network (right as other companies are adopting it!) and new vehicles.

arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/t

Ars Technica · Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehiclesTesla is also getting rid of its public policy team, despite robotaxi ambitions.

@parismarx This is batshit insane. Supercharger network is a nice little side business for them to be in, to guarantee some steady income over the years, but no. Why do people think he's smart again?

@mhkohne @parismarx If I had a hunch, it's because he's contrarian and (crucial bit here) rich enough to make certain people confuse his contrarianism with success and thus (mistakenly) intelligence.

@parismarx I’m really curious about the Supercharger cuts. Do we have any clarity on whether they’re going to continue to upgrade existing stations to the next generation of hardware? IMO this is an important question because with the win on the charging ports they obsoleted all other networks. But, some of them (eg Electrify America) can run significantly faster than the current Super standards.
Big Technoking Energy.

@jakemiller “Musk told workers that Tesla ‘will continue to build out some new Supercharger locations, where critical, and finish those currently under construction.’”

@parismarx

If it is something that customers love, it's a megalomaniac CEO that also doesn't seem to care about products.

Checks out. He wanted more bots on Twitter, he wants more bot-cars for Tesla. Let's see how that works out for Twitter first...

@parismarx in Musk's imagination, there's no need for superchargers anymore. He'll just beam down the energy from his #Starlink satellites!