{"id":251043,"date":"2024-05-16T00:07:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T00:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/of-camels-sponges-teslas-supercharging-team-firing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T00:07:29","slug":"of-camels-sponges-teslas-supercharging-team-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/of-camels-sponges-teslas-supercharging-team-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Camels, Sponges, &#038; Tesla&#8217;s Supercharging Team Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>A great deal of digital ink has been spilled on Tesla laying off a lot of its Supercharger team recently. I\u2019m not in the business of commenting on Tesla and Musk\u2019s every twitch and tweet, so I don\u2019t have fourteen hot takes already. But I have a hypothesis and it involves camels, sponges, spectators, and transitions.<\/p>\n<p>Like a lot of people who grew up outside of the affluent trust-fund set, I have a broad variety of experience to draw on from my career. One of my many part-time jobs to pay for education, rent, and food was being an officer in the Canadian military reserves. An early professional job was running logistical deployments of telecommunications and computer systems for one of Canada\u2019s major banks, the largest of which was 32,000 devices over 1,400 physical locations in 10&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/15\/of-camels-sponges-teslas-supercharging-team-firing\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A great deal of digital ink has been spilled on Tesla laying off a lot of its Supercharger team recently. I\u2019m not in the business of commenting on Tesla and Musk\u2019s every twitch and tweet, so I don\u2019t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":251044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Of Camels, Sponges, &amp; Tesla&#039;s Supercharging Team Firing - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/05\/15\/of-camels-sponges-teslas-supercharging-team-firing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Of Camels, Sponges, &amp; Tesla&#039;s Supercharging Team Firing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. 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