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"Just to reiterate: Tesla will spend well over $500M expanding
our Supercharger network to create thousands of NEW chargers
this year," Musk said in a post on his social media platform X.
"That's just on new sites and expansions, not counting
operations costs, which are much higher," he said.
After the layoffs last week, Musk said Tesla planned to expand
the Supercharger network but at a slower pace for new locations.
EV makers have been adopting Tesla's North American Charging
Standard, making the company's superchargers closer to becoming
the industry standard at the expense of the rival Combined
Charging System.
However, Musk's decision to gut the electric-vehicle charging
team is scrambling plans for rolling out new fast-charging
stations and may delay President Joe Biden's efforts to
electrify U.S. highways.
The Biden administration has doled out $5 billion to states over
five years to build 500,000 EV chargers as part of the National
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, and Tesla has been
among the biggest winners of those federal funds so far.
(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva
and Arun Koyyur)
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