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Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles (arstechnica.com)
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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The electric car company who spent years pissing off liberals is faling? whodathunkit

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah to this day I don't understand this "genius" business move. My redneck conservative dad sure as hell isn't buying an electric vehicle anytime soon, even if you put a giant MAGA hat on it.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 10 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