Tesla needs its Supercharger team after all - employees re-hired to former posts mere weeks after axing

It has been less than a month since Elon Musk fired almost the entire nearly-500-person Tesla team working on its North American Supercharger network. Now, an inside source from Bloomberg claims that Tesla has begun rehiring some of the very same Supercharger team employees that it fired.

It's unclear just how many former team members Tesla will rehire, but the insider has confirmed that Max de Zegher has returned to his post as the director of charging for North America.

Almost immediately following Musk's axing of the Supercharger team and its directors, even the most loyal Tesla fans questioned Musk's logic behind the lay-offs. While cost-cutting measures and a restructuring were and are currently underway at Tesla, to many, it seemed as though firing the Supercharger team should be a last resort, not a first.

After all, Tesla's Supercharger network is one of the company's biggest success stories, especially when it comes to fuelling EV adoption, and Musk says Tesla plans to spend “well over $500M” to expand it this year alone. The company also recently shifted its strategy around the Supercharger network when it made the NACS connector an open standard and managed to get almost every other EV maker on-board with using the connector and its charging network.