Just two weeks later Tesla laid off at least 14,000 workers worldwide, CEO Elon Musk is planning layoffs for hundreds more employees — including most of the company’s Supercharger team and several executives.
Musk wrote in an email to senior Tesla executives late Monday evening: first reported by The Informationthat he wanted to be “absolutely tough” in reducing the Tesla workforce. He added that starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday, he would call on any manager to resign “who employs more than three people who clearly do not pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test.”
He also announced that two executives would be leaving Tesla on Tuesday morning: Rebecca Tinucci, a six-year veteran of the company who is in charge of the Supercharger division overseas, and Daniel Ho, who has been at Tesla for more than a decade and is the division of manages new products. Ho was previously program manager for the Model S, Model 3 and Model Y.
Most of Tinucci’s 500-person team will also be leaving the company on Tuesday, although some are reportedly set to be reassigned to other teams, The Information reports. Tinucci was instrumental in leading Tesla’s electric vehicle charging business convincing western car manufacturers to adopt the North American charging standard – an achievement that gave it its breakthrough Time Magazine’s 100 Climates List.
Tesla shares fell more than 2% in premarket trading on Tuesday.
The additional layoffs are unexpected, but not entirely surprising. Tesla said earlier this month that it would make cuts.more than 10%” of its 140,000-strong global workforce. But Musk had reportedly pushed for the firing 20% of the companyan amount he thought would match Tesla’s sales decline between the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024.
Ho and Tinucci join at least three other high-profile executives either already resigned or plan later this year.
Drew Baglino, Tesla’s senior vice president of power engineering and powertrain, announced his resignation on April 15 as layoffs began arriving in workers’ inboxes. He was one of the first electrical engineers to work on it Roadster, Tesla’s first ever electric vehicleand was one of Teslas four named senior executives. Shortly after his resignation, Baglino sold sold about 1.1 million Tesla shares for about $181.5 million.
Rohan Patel, Tesla’s vice president of public policy and business development, also left the company. Most of his public policy team was eliminated.
And Martin Viecha, head of investor relations at Tesla, concluded the first quarter earnings conference call announces his resignation. But unlike Patel and Baglino, he will remain in his role over the next few months to ensure a “smooth transition”.
Anthony Thurston, head of cathode materials and manufacturing at Tesla, was affected by the previous layoffs. Amir Mirshahi, who managed the infrastructure of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas, was also fired.
This article originally appeared on quartz.