This Tesla team quietly built one of its superpowers. Why did Elon pull the plug on it?
Elon Musk’s ‘hard-core’ cuts to the EV-maker’s Supercharger group are confusing everyone.
Over the past year, Elon Musk notched a huge, slow-motion win. In a matter of months, one automaker after another signed up to adopt Tesla’s EV charging plug. The company’s huge network of Supercharger stations has been credited for laying the foundation for EV adoption, and the industry’s falling-in-line cemented Tesla’s technology as the nation’s de facto standard, unlocked federal funds, and hinted at a potentially giant business for Tesla, as a kind of energy utility.