https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-reportedly-sacked-tesla-120720545.html
Elon Musk shocked Tesla fans on Monday after news leaked he was eliminating everyone at Teslas Supercharger operations, starting with his highest-ranking female executive.
According to an email from the entrepreneur obtained by The Information, Teslas senior director for EV charging, Rebecca Tinucci, would be leaving the company with immediate effect. Musk also informed staff he would be dismissing everyone on her Supercharger team, which 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 Tinuccis is reminiscent of the mass cullings Musk carried out at Twitter after he took over the company. He even prefaced this months companywide layoffs that got rid of more than every tenth job at Tesla 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.