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Tesla To Close a Dozen Solar Facilities In 9 States (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Electric car maker Tesla's move last week to cut 9 percent of its workforce will sharply downsize the residential solar business it bought two years ago in a controversial $2.6 billion deal, according to three internal company documents and seven current and former Tesla solar employees. The latest cuts to the division that was once SolarCity -- a sales and installation company founded by two cousins of Tesla CEO Elon Musk -- include closing about a dozen installation facilities, according to internal company documents, and ending a retail partnership with Home Depot that the current and former employees said generated about half of its sales. About 60 installation facilities remain open, according to an internal company list reviewed by Reuters. An internal company email named 14 facilities slated for closure, but the other list included only 13 of those locations.
That is why tech guys are such big Musk fans: they all believe that technology will solve all of our problems, and Musk has latched onto that as well. It is nonsensical of course. His companies are producing products for the 1% while grabbing taxpayer money from everyone else. Fortunately for Musk the overlap between tech guys and the 1% is pretty big, so you have delusional people like Rei and Bruce who can see no wrong. If they really believed in delivering affordable EVs to the masses they would invest in one of the car manufacturers who are actually doing it, rather than Tesla which makes playthings for the rich.