Tesla Pulling Out of Supercharger Leases After Firing Entire Supercharger Team

Re:Tesla Pulling Out of Supercharger Leases After Firing Ent... by addicted on Thursday May 02, 2024 @01:57PM (#40239276)

This looks like a more detailed link.

https://electrek.co/2024/04/30/tesla-pulling-back-supercharg...

Pulling out of expanding the supercharger network is genuinely surprising to me. I’ve seen the supercharger network to be the equivalent of oil for Tesla, except they would have massive first mover advantages in being the oil suppliers.

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Re:Tesla Pulling Out of Supercharger Leases After Firing Ent... by paulddraper on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:09PM (#40240855)

The difference is that oil makes money. Like, a lot of money.

Charging station networks are not some highly strategic play.

Charging stations rely on subsidies. Of which Tesla recently got a disproportionately low share.

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Re:Tesla Pulling Out of Supercharger Leases After Firing Ent... by bink on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:39PM (#40241643)

> The difference is that oil makes money.

Oil companies might, but gas stations do not.

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Re:Tesla Pulling Out of Supercharger Leases After Firing Ent... by paulddraper on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:43PM (#40241683)

Not much, but let's put it this way.....

Gas stations don't rely on federal subsidies to exist.

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