Tesla Lays Off Entire Team Behind Brakes.
“As the brakes never really worked anyway, we figured the team’s existence was redundant. Going forward, none of our models will be outfitted with brakes"
At press time, Tesla staffers responsible for wheels were reportedly nervous after receiving an ominous meeting request from HR.
https://www.theonion.com/tesla-lays-off-entire-team-behind-brakes-1851449223?utm_campaign=TheOnion&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=bluesky&utm_content=

#Musk #satire

Tesla Lays Off Entire Team Behind Brakes

AUSTIN, TX—In the latest round of layoffs for the company’s struggling automotive division, electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla fired the entire team behind brakes, sources confirmed Wednesday.

^{The Ellen Show (The Onion)}

Musk undercuts the Biden admin's EV charging initiative:

"Elon Musk has upended a deal the WH saluted early last year to open Tesla’s chargers to other automakers, dealing a blow to Pres Biden’s EV agenda.

Musk decided in the last week to eliminate almost the entire Supercharger team at Tesla. He hasn’t publicly confirmed the move or offered a rationale, but has said the co will slow the expansion of its charging network."

#Musk #Tesla #EV #EVCharging #GOPSabotage

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/musk-undercuts-tesla-chargers-biden-had-lauded-as-a-big-deal?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_medium=social

Elon Musk Cuts Tesla (TSLA) Supercharger Team, Dealing Blow to Biden’s EV Agenda

Elon Musk has upended a deal the White House saluted early last year to open Tesla Inc.’s electric-vehicle chargers to other automakers, dealing a blow to President Joe Biden’s EV agenda.

^{Craig Trudell (Bloomberg)}

Musk hasn't revealed his plans after he cut Tesla's Supercharger Team. Ford thinks the EV station buildout will be fine, but GM is concerned:

"Elon Musk’s move to lay off the department responsible for Tesla’s electric vehicle chargers has touched off worries in the auto industry that EVs from other automakers will have trouble joining Tesla’s network."

#Musk #Tesla #EV #EVCharging
https://www.kob.com/news/business-money/elimination-of-teslas-charging-department-raises-worries-as-evs-from-other-automakers-join-network/

Elimination of Tesla's charging department raises worries as EVs from other automakers join network - KOB.com

^{KOB TV}

#WompWomp

#Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles + getting rid of public policy team, despite robotaxi ambitions.

"Customers not turned off by #Musk's antics instead are losing interest w product lineup of 2 EVs that are ancient in car years (the Models S and X) & 2 EVs that are merely old (the Models 3 and Y)..Any other automaker would have 2nd-gen Model 3 ready to go either this yr or next, but at Tesla, the product pipeline is empty"
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-to-lay-off-everyone-working-on-superchargers-new-vehicles/

Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Tesla is also getting rid of its public policy team, despite robotaxi ambitions.

^{Ars Technica}

#WompWomp

Bloomberg:

#SCOTUS rejected Elon #Musk’s appeal not to have an in-house lawyer pre-approve his social media posts about #Tesla

You must be kidding me, Jason.

Too early to celebrate, my dude

#mastodon #bluesky #threads #twitter #x #elon #musk #elonmusk #googleplus #google #graveyard #socialmedia #technology #tech

#Tesla’s Profit Fell 55%, Adding to Concerns About Its Strategy

The first-quarter results will very likely fuel worries that competitors will continue grabbing a bigger slice of a #market dealing with slowing #ElectricCar sales.

#ElonMusk #Musk #finance #investing #StockMarket #business #egomaniac #EV
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/business/tesla-earnings-first-quarter-elon-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

#Tesla #Musk #cybertruck

Source: Spacemadness TV Facebook

I did a quick check of online traffic, and where Twitter was once bigger than Facebook, FB now sees 5.5x as much traffic per week than "Twitter".

1.3B organic visits per week is nothing to sneeze at, but where they were once ranked #2 or #3 for the busiest website, they are now #9 and sinking fast. #Musk #MoreMoneyThanBrains

“Elon #Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is.

Musk is being sued for falsely suggesting a 22-year-old Jewish man was part of a neo-Nazi brawl.”
https://apple.news/ARduOjaZARZO67NtdderVAA

Elon Musk Didn’t Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is. — HuffPost

^apple.news

Name this Band!
Benenne diese Band.

#Music #Band #Musk #Milei

MUSK-Y odor of Wrongdoing

Brazil's Supreme Court judge opens an investigation of Elon Musk over misinformation
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #Twitter #Mastodon #socialmedia #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/08/1243382430/elon-musk-brazil-supreme-court-investigation

Lol

“It appears that Elon #Musk’s X, formerly known as #Twitter, has restored blue check marks to popular users overnight — and some of them are taking to the platform to clarify that they didn’t pay for the perk.”

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/elon-musk-restores-blue-checks-x-influential-users-1235960188/

Elon Musk Restores Blue Checks on X for 'Influential' Users

Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, has restored blue check marks to popular users seemingly overnight.

^{Ellise Shafer (Variety)}

Not nearly enough.
The story of #Tesla reminds me of a #bubble, very much like the excellent article Cory @pluralistic wrote last December about two kinds of (tech) bubbles.*

Even though Tesla is just a company, its market cap and the weight of all of the #Musk brands taken together easily make up for lack of other competitors in this hypothesis.

The #TeslaBubble will be of the type that leaves something behind. A shaken up old car industry.

We'll see.

*
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101 – north to San Francisco, south to Palo Alto – and …

^{Locus Online}