Just months after firing nearly 10 per cent of its workforce, and reportedly dissolving its entire Supercharger team, electric car giant Tesla has begun hiring again.
In April, amid the savage job cuts, new jobs ads were removed from its websites, but they are now starting to resurface on Tesla’s careers page. In the US, Europe, Asia and even Australia job, listings covering hundreds of roles have now been listed.
These jobs span between Tesla’s current key businesses of vehicle manufacturing, design, charging, energy storage and AI as well as future lineups such as robotics.
In Australia, there are only a handful of roles currently being advertised on its careers website. These mainly focus on energy storage and internship programs.
However, what is happening locally though is the supercharger locations are continuing to expand with multiple new sites under construction.
The new sites will bring at least 27 new high-powered chargers online in the coming weeks. On top of that, Tesla is upgrading some of its sites with newer V4 supercharger hardware.
These sites will soon have longer cables as works are undertaken in June, making it easier for all EVs to charge at these locations.
Overall all job listings are expected to increase in the coming weeks and months as the company shifts its efforts to the design, testing and unveiling of the Cybercab robotaxi.
This will be a low-cost transportation offering in many parts of the world and help Tesla deliver on the affordable vehicle its CEO, Elon Musk has spoken about on multiple occasions.
This vehicle is expected to be announced on August 8, and with early renders that the company has teased will look and function unlike anything that’s currently on our roads.
The Cybercab robotaxi is unlikely to arrive in the Australian market for years to come, but one thing that is changing quite quickly is the prices of Teslas.
Some used Tesla Model 3 vehicles are being advertised under $35,000, making this the cheapest we’ve seen so far. This example was spotted on carsales and is located in Queensland.
The vehicle itself is a blue 2019 Tesla Model 3 that has travelled around 122,000 km over the last 5 years.
Along with this multiple other Model 3 vehicles are priced well under $40,000.
With recent price cuts across both Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in May, the prices of used EVs will continue to fall, making EV ownership possible for so many more drivers on our roads.
Riz is the founder of carloop based in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV data, insight reports and trends. He is a mechanical engineer who spent the first 7 years of his career building transport infrastructure before starting carloop. He has a passion for cars, particularly EVs and wants to help reduce transport emissions in Australia. He currently drives a red Tesla Model 3.