lautan@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoElon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grantsgizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThis means they’ll gradually lose de facto control over the charging standards to other car companies, though.
minus-squarepostmateDumbass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThis just means other companies can hire people that already know the standards better than whoever Tesla ends up with. It might give Elon a month or two of added delay before other companies start using the Tesla chargers. But it is absolutely more of Elon turning this chapter of his life into a sequel of Brewster’s Millions, and like all sequels - it sucks.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoBut I loved the Richard Pryor version!
This means they’ll gradually lose de facto control over the charging standards to other car companies, though.
This just means other companies can hire people that already know the standards better than whoever Tesla ends up with.
It might give Elon a month or two of added delay before other companies start using the Tesla chargers.
But it is absolutely more of Elon turning this chapter of his life into a sequel of Brewster’s Millions, and like all sequels - it sucks.
But I loved the Richard Pryor version!