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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
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Tesla Reduces Global Staff by Over 10% https://evne.ws/4axeob9
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| 0:00.0 | It's TV News briefly for Monday 15th of April. Everything you need to know in less than |
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| 0:12.1 | to record Tesla is reducing their global staff by an historic amount. Over 10% of staff |
| 0:18.0 | will be laid off. That's at least 14,000 employees, if not more, of the 140,000 that they employ globally. |
| 0:25.7 | A note being circulated on Twitter from CEO Elon Musk says that he is saddened by these layoffs, but must be done to focus the company. |
| 0:35.3 | The fifth significant cut since 2017, but by far and away, |
| 0:39.5 | the biggest headcount reduction that Tesla have ever done. As a stop on cyber truck deliveries right |
| 0:46.4 | now because of a pedal issue where the plastic, silver-colored plastic cover on the accelerator, |
| 0:52.3 | can come off. Now, the cyber truck, unlike other Teslers, is hinged at the bottom, which requires you to push down forwards and upwards as well with your foot. But that cover can slide off. The glue or whatever is holding that down. That cover then can get caught in the bulkhead or the underneath of the vehicle. |
| 1:13.5 | One reporter on one report on Twitter showing how this happens. |
| 1:18.0 | Now, luckily, the drive had the sense and calmness, not sure I would, to hit the brakes and remove the block, |
| 1:26.3 | but the vehicles are not being delivered right now as Tesla re-engineer, |
| 1:31.3 | the accelerator by the looks of it. |
| 1:33.2 | Now, Tesla is halving the monthly cost for their full self-driving package from $199 to $99 in the US and Canada, |
| 1:40.0 | with their full self-driving suite still on sale for $12,000 if you'd like to buy it. |
| 1:44.9 | General Motors announcing plans to move forward with the construction of their $3.5 billion. |
| 1:50.0 | Battery manufacturing facility in Indiana near New Carlisle. |
| 1:54.2 | They're reinforcing. |
| 1:55.4 | They say that they are investing heavily in electric vehicles still now. |
| 2:00.1 | California is powering through with 100% renewable. |
| 2:03.6 | Now for two weeks on the trot, they've done this here and there over the years, |
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