The car maker Tesla wants to cut jobs to save costs. The reduction of seven per cent of the Bodies is planned Tesla boss Elon Musk informed. The production wants to drive the company, however, high.
Tesla had employees according to Musks in October last around 45,000. It should be completely full-time jobs, would be affected around 3000 jobs. The reduction and savings will enable Tesla, its Model 3 in the standard version, cheaper and gain more customers. Currently, the starting price is 44.000 US dollars, the goal of $ 35,000.
“With a bit of luck”
In a message to the employees Musk wrote that the first calculations suggested a weaker result in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to the previous three months. Tesla had reported in the third quarter, surprising a profit. Musk had announced this then also for the last three months of the year. The current quarter will allow Tesla to “I hope to achieve with great difficulty, effort and a bit of luck,” a “small profit,” it said in the current message.
For investors, the news arrived well, Tesla’s shares lost in the premarket US trading at times of seven per cent. Tesla had recently disappointed in the numbers, with weaker delivery. Accordingly, the auto manufacturer brought in the fourth quarter, less electric cars to customers than expected. The group sold a total of costs 90,700 vehicles, of which 63.150 from the hope Model 3. Even if Tesla increased year-on-year to more than three times, and record values achieved, had been expected on Wall Street with stronger Numbers.
With lower prices and more buyers reach: Tesla hopes the Model 3
The Model 3 is the first cheaper electric car from Tesla, Musk to make the leap to the mass market. The start of production, however, was to be bumpy. Recently, the production took more travel – in the last quarter, Tesla produced a total of 86.555 Time the Model 3, which was eight percent more than in the previous quarter.
Also SpaceX has to save
Also Elon Musks space travel company SpaceX, announced last week, to dismiss employees to cut costs. An Insider says the company wants to be released approximately every tenth of its more than 6000 employees. The company would not comment on the demand for the number of redundancies. It spoke only of a “leaner” organization, for the need to separate from a part of the workforce.
Elon Musk changed with reasonable price, the space: a launch of a satellite of the US military in a SpaceX rocket
SpaceX intends to offer starting in 2023 flights to the moon. Also traveling to Mars would like to make a Musk. He also relies on lucrative contracts from the U.S. space Agency, NASA, the U.S. military and satellite companies. Reusable components are designed to make space travel significantly cheaper.
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