Tesla Pullback puts the burden of building EV chargers on others
Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive, caught competitors, suppliers and his own employees by surprise this week by reversing course on his aggressive push to build electric vehicle chargers in the United States, a top priority of the Biden administration.Musk's decision to fire the 500-member team responsible for installing charging stations and dramatically slow investment in new stations rattled the industry and raised questions about whether the number of public chargers would grow fast enough to keep the pace with sales of battery-powered cars. He has put the onus on other charging companies, raising doubts about their ability to build fast enough to address a shortage that appears to be discouraging some people from buying electric cars.As the owner of the largest charging netw...