] [TechWeb June 21, according to foreign media reports, in July 2003 the establishment of Tesla, there are a lot of progress in electric vehicles, including the Model S, Model 3, including a variety of electric vehicles are there are mass production, last year's production of electric vehicles and delivery volume has exceeded 200,000, also launched a cross-border electric trucks and sport utility electric car Model Y.
However, there is great progress in electric vehicles Tesla, has been too optimistic in terms of the financial position, profitability was established nearly 16 years in only four quarters, the annualized have not yet achieved profitability one year, and in order to reduce costs to achieve profitability goals, Tesla also like a lot of ways, downsizing is one of them, from October 2017 to now less than two years, it has laid off 8,000 employees.
In October 2017, foreign media reported that after the completion of performance evaluation Tesla laid off more than 700 employees, Tesla subsequently confirmed the news, but layoffs are not part of the staff of this poor performance, but poor performance of the company as a whole.
Tesla larger scale layoffs occur once in June last year, when its CEO Musk said in an internal e-mail, the company will lay off 9%, in order to reduce costs to achieve profitability, there were nearly 4,000 employees were affected.
The time of only six months after the June layoffs, Tesla has announced large layoffs news, Musk announced in the mail in January 18 it would cut about 7% of employees at the end of last year, according to Tesla 48817 full-time employees to calculate, in January of this year, layoffs spread to more than 3400 employees.