Laid Off Tesla Supercharger Employee Predicts Network Quality Will “Deteriorate”

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Former employee says Supercharger team already had more work than it could manage before layoffs

A former Tesla employee says the Supercharger team depended on overworked employees before layoffs Now that the team has been gutted, the laid-off worker predicts that more problems will crop up The issues may present themselves as the network becomes busier than ever Following a tough quarter, and facing a difficult future, Tesla has launched what its CEO Elon Musk refers to as absolutely hardcore headcount and cost reductions.

Read: What Is Tesla Doing With $17M In Federal Charging Grants After Firing Supercharger Team? A laid-off worker who was part of Tesla's charging station diagnosis and repair team spoke to InsideEVs on condition of anonymity, saying that even when the Supercharger team was well-staffed, they struggled to handle all the workload and that he had to be available 19 to 24 hours per day. We couldn't keep up. And now the network is even larger, the employee said.

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