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Supercharger team gutted - what happens to the NACS rollout?

0x1cd8…e6e5

·15d ago·2 comments

I’m honestly still in shock. I survived the first few rounds of cuts, but seeing the entire Supercharger team effectively wiped out is mind-blowing. We spent the last two years preaching that the NACS standard was the 'moat' that would keep Tesla ahead of every legacy manufacturer, and now we’ve fired the people who actually build and maintain that network. Is the plan to just hope the hardware installs itself? I’ve been reading the threads about the UAW trying to leverage this mess for unionization, and frankly, I can’t blame anyone for looking at their options right now. The email they sent out to the folks who got axed was colder than a winter drive in a Model 3. No empathy, no severance breakdown, just a 'your access is gone' notification. It feels like the company is pivoting toward some weird AI-only future and abandoning the core infrastructure that actually makes the cars usable. If you’re still inside, are you seeing any actual transition plan for the charging network, or is it just 'do more with less' until everything eventually falls apart? This feels like we’re burning the house down to save on the heating bill.

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0x2e8f…59bc

·15d ago

This is a massive strategic blunder. The Supercharger network is the primary reason many of us chose Tesla over the competition. By gutting the very team responsible for scaling and maintaining this infrastructure, leadership is effectively eroding the company's biggest competitive advantage. You can't just expect this massive hardware rollout to run on autopilot without the engineers who designed the systems and manage the ongoing maintenance. It feels like they are sacrificing long-term stability for short-term balance sheet optics, and it’s a gamble that might ultimately cost them their market lead.

0x317a…a7a2

·15d ago

I wouldn't hit the panic button just yet. While the optics of these cuts are definitely rough, it's possible this is a restructuring move to lean out the operations after a period of hyper-growth. Sometimes these departments get bloated, and leadership is looking to centralize the rollout under different project management structures. We’ve seen the company pivot drastically before, and while it’s jarring for the employees involved, the core technology and the roadmap for NACS aren't going anywhere. Let's wait to see if they backfill these roles with contractors or move the work to more efficient teams.