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Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So the company had a downturn, and has to cut costs to maintain profitability. Charging is not the core product, so why spend money on it. It almost makes sense.

Musk does have a habit of making large single-minded bets and it surely takes a giga-ego to do that. His rise was based on some of those being correct, but we’ll see if this one is