#Tesla Supercharger

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Elon Musk reportedly axed the entire Tesla Supercharger team after their division chief defied orders and said no to more layoffs

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Ford CEO Jim Farley on new Ford-Tesla EV partnership: It's a bet for our customers

Ford CEO Jim Farley joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the company's new partnership with Tesla, where Ford owner will be granted access to thousands to Tesla superchargers across the U.S. and Canada starting early next year, how the alliance was forged, and more.

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Elon Musk shocked Tesla fans on Monday after news leaked he was eliminating everyone at Tesla’s Supercharger operations, starting with his highest ranking female executive. 

According to an email from the entrepreneur obtained by The Information, Tesla’s senior director for EV charging, Rebecca Tinucci, will be leaving the company with immediate effect. Musk also informed staff he would be dismissing everyone on her Supercharging team, which it said numbered roughly 500 employees. 

Tinucci is also the most senior woman executive at the company, as board chair Robyn Denholm is not involved in the day-to-day operations and only serves in an oversight and governance role. 

Gutting core operations like Tinucci's is reminiscent of the mass cullings Musk carried out at Twitter after he took over the company. He even prefaced this month’s Tesla’s company-wide layoffs that got rid of more than every tenth job with a similar questionnaire to managers demanding they justify their human resources.

“Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction,” he wrote in the email seen by The Information, which also announced the end of the public policy team led by departed executive Rohan Patel. “While some on exec staff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.”

The move comes as a shock since Tesla's dense network of 50,000 Supercharger sites around the world have been a game-changer, removing range anxiety associated with switching to EVs. No other carmaker designs, manufactures and operates their own in-house fast charging network at anything even remotely comparable to Tesla’s scale—it has long been considered Tesla's strategic moat protecting it from the threat of new competition.

A major reason why many investors are so convinced Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software will become the industry standard is past experience. Starting with Ford last May, U.S. carmakers made the fateful decision to abandon rival charging standards and switch to Tesla’s proprietary NACS hardware.

Electrek, one of the leading EV news sites, called the decision “absolutely crazy”, especially given Musk is asking shareholders also approve in June his record pay package worth roughly $58 billion at today’s stock price.

“It makes absolutely no sense to lay off the Supercharger team,” commented the publication. “Supercharging is an incredible opportunity for Tesla, especially now that everyone else has adopted NACS.”

Just weeks before, Tinucci had been given the honor of holding a presentation to Wall Street analysts at Tesla’s Investor Day last March. Apart from a handful of lieutenants like design boss Franz von Holzhausen and engineering chief Lars Moravy, execs behind Musk rarely interact with the broader public. 

During her speech she revealed her vision for lowering her network’s costs by boosting site utilization rates without the aggravation of longer customer wait times. Because Tesla is the only manufacturer to enjoy access to real-time data from both its car fleet and its fast-charging network, it could develop software that would serve as an “air traffic controller” in her words, directing Tesla owners across the world to the most convenient Supercharger.

Tesla eliminated its press relations team years ago and did not respond to a Fortune request for comment. Tinucci, who would be the fourth senior executive to leave within a month, could not be reached by Fortune. Her LinkedIn profile still lists Tesla as her current employer. 

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What Are the Differences Between Turbocharger And Supercharger?

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With 50,000+ Superchargers, Tesla owns and operates the largest global, fast charging network in the world. Located on major routes near convenient amenities, Superchargers keep you charged when you're away from home. Simply plug in, charge and go.

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Exploring the Latest Innovations in Electric Vehicle Charging

The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is on the rise globally, and as a result, the demand for efficient and accessible EV charging infrastructure has increased dramatically. To meet this growing need, innovators and industries are constantly pushing the boundaries of technology and developing cutting-edge solutions to address the challenges associated with EV charging. In this blog post, we…

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Canada's Biggest Tesla Supercharger Station Debuts in Richmond

Richmond, British Columbia, has officially opened the largest Tesla Supercharger station in Canada. The new facility is a crucial addition to the existing charging infrastructure in the region, particularly benefiting the numerous Tesla owners who reside there. This development aims to strengthen Canada’s commitment to sustainable transportation by providing a reliable and convenient charging…

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Destination charging. Sort of.

As a recent convert to full EV transportation, I’ve had to adjust my frame reference when travelling. It’s a very different world, and I don’t mean the actual driving experience.

Historically, I’d jump into my car and drive until the petrol light came on, fill up in a few minutes at the next station and I’d be on my way again.

Range anxiety? Mostly no although some of the vehicles I drive/ride have a tank that will only cover 100 or so miles. EVing is very different.

Firstly, charging at home means I so very rarely need to charge in the wild as the car is fully topped up when I sleep. And it’s super cheap. For this alone, an EV is worth it.

Petrol stations are not nice places: security screens, smelly diesel spills, tight parking, expensive shops, and nasty fast food (yes, Greggs, I’m looking at you) make for a deeply unpleasant experience. Some bigger, mostly motorway services are better and offer a US-Mall experience with food courts, garish entertainment, and screaming kids.

Charging out in the wild - fast or rapid charging - is becoming commonplace and often located on or near main trunk routes. But, it’s not like doing a fuel splash and dash stop, and maybe a flying visit to the toilet. No, a trunk-journey charge stop is a considered event, usually planned to last 15 to 30 mins.

30 minutes is an in-between amount of time, too long to do nothing and too short to really get into something. So, toilet, fast food, walk the dog, coffee, or a couple of Youtube shorts is all you can really do.

And then Elon introduces the Supercharging Diner concept (https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/elon-musk-tesla-building-drive-in-movie-theater-and-diner/458255) and everything makes perfect sense.

If you’re only stopping for 15-30 minutes you may as well stay in your car, watch something on your phone or oversized car screen. But what if your car could connect to the facility’s services, you could order food, watch stuff, and be advertised to all from the comfort of the driving seat. When the car hits 75% full, you’ve got enough time to pop for a quick pee and then you’re on the road going.

Only to rinse and repeat three hours and 150 miles further down the road. Think about it, Hotdog & Fries every 3 hours. Sounds like they should also provide provide drive-in glucose monitoring stations, too. Or more stores that sell actual healthy stuff - not just stuff marketed as healthy.

We’re off on a short holiday to Wales next week and we’ll likely stop at “that Costa Coffee with two fast chargers outside Wrexham” and grab a coffee and walk/toilet the dog whilst grabbing a cheeky 40-80% charge. We’ll sit outside in the sun on the nice benches - it was real peaceful the last time we were there.

It’s a different kind of destination charge, not at the end of your journey, but somewhere nice, easily accessible, and designed for a 30 minute stop. Not a stinky, polluted, and noisy petrol station forecourt. Nope, those days ate over.

Roll over and die Wooley Edge Services, farewell filling stations - bring on the 30 minute charging destinations. Yay, I’ve seen the future.

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Mercedes EVs to Use Tesla Superchargers in North America

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The 2 Tesla questions we always get are regarding where you can supercharge your Tesla while in Las Vegas and which Vegas Tesla Supercharger should you go to?

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We got 83 responses to our highly unscientific survey. The average drive was 2,284 miles (median = 1250), and the average number of times people stopped to charge was 13 (median = 7).(..)

Challenges charging on an EV road trip. Out of the 83 responses, 63 reported “no problem.” Think about that — an astounding 76% of pure EV road trips, averaging 2284 miles, reported no problem charging.(..)

P.S. Pretty good result: Long-distance driving with electric cars is no longer as much of a challenge as it used to be. It should rather be said here that one of the hindering factors for the wider introduction of electric cars is not "range anxiety", but "charger anxiety"