Uber has snapped up Tesla’s former head of charging, Rebecca Tinucci, who was fired by Elon Musk, alongside together with her total workforce, a couple of months in the past.
Rebecca Tinucci deserves a major a part of the credit score for Tesla’s unbelievable deployment of charging infrastructure via a number of main roles within the workforce during the last 6 years, together with as head of the charging workforce for the final two.
Her workforce constructed undoubtedly the very best and most intensive DC fast-charging community on this planet.
Because of this it was shocking to see CEO Elon Musk fireplace her and her total 500-person workforce earlier this 12 months.
As we reported, the story behind her firing was that Musk requested her to fireplace a sure share of her workers as a part of broader layoffs throughout Tesla. She complied, however then Musk requested for additional layoffs, which she pushed again towards as she didn’t imagine she might ship on the charging targets with out her full workforce at this level.
As an alternative of merely firing her and changing her with somebody who might observe via with the layoffs, Musk determined to fireplace her total workforce. The corporate ended up having to rehire a few of the former workforce members.
Now, we study that Uber has employed Tinucci to steer the electrification of its ride-hailing fleet, in keeping with a memo obtained by Bloomberg.
Uber is making an attempt to fully electrify its international fleet by 2040 via many various packages to incentivize its drivers to go electrical and the deployment of charging stations.
In truth, Tesla was working immediately with Uber in New York Metropolis to assist enhance the charging infrastructure and assist the rising native electrical ride-hailing fleet.
Now we have beforehand reported on different firms making the most of Tesla’s firing its total charging workforce to amass some new expertise, together with New York’s Revel, which has now partnered with Uber on charging infrastructure in New York Metropolis.