Today, EFTM can reveal that at least one planned location, where work was set to commence within months will not go ahead, and given the messaging, it seems clear that will likely flow along to many if not all others.
This business – located in regional Victoria, who’s name we are keeping private at their request, has a large carpark which was due to include a four-bay Tesla Supercharger.
In an email sighted by EFTM, a legal representative for the business advised the General Manager that “
I have just received a voicemail from Andy Nguyen at Tesla advising that the Tesla Supercharger team has been dissolved globally and there will be no more supercharger sites moving forward.
I’ve just spoken to Andy and he has expressed his disappointment and was certainly caught by surprise – as were the rest of the Tesla Supercharging teams. He also said he expects his email to be deactivated within the next 24 hours.
Happy to chat if you have any queries but safe to say this matter probably won’t be going any further.“
From what we can ascertain, Andy Nguyen works in the Global Supercharger planning team in Austin Texas for Tesla.
EFTM has also seen the Licence agreement for the Supercharger, which was for a five year period with the option for Tesla to extend twice by five years. That’s a fifteen year plan for a Supercharger location – out the window.
Looks like these four bays, plus the fifth that was going to be used by the Control Cabinets and Switchboard will still be available to all car-owning patrons for years to come.