Tesla's profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team

At the start of the year, Tesla’s Supercharger team was tasked with the impossible. “We were on an exponential path,” a former team member told TechCrunch, adding that the new targets were “super-duper crazy.” Despite the bottlenecks that such expectations can create, “every time they upped the metric, we met it.”Then, one day in April, CEO Elon Musk axed the entire division, even though it was profitable last year. With more than 25,000 charging ports in the U.S. and over 50,000 worldwide, the Supercharger ...