Tesla is shortening the shifts on its Cybertruck line.
Richard Vogel
Tesla recently sent an internal memo to Cybertruck employees.
The memo describes shorter working hours at the Gigafactory in Austin.
The new schedule follows Tesla’s first year-over-year quarterly sales decline since 2020.
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Tesla has the employees who work on Cybertruck Workers said shifts on the production line at the Gigafactory in Austin will be shorter, according to an internal memo seen by Business Insider.
Previously, workers worked 12-hour shifts from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Now they will work 11-hour shifts during the day and 10.5-hour shifts at night — from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. — the memo said.
The new schedule was communicated internally Thursday and will take effect Monday, the memo said.
It is unclear whether Tesla will apply the new schedule to other production lines or at other factories. Tesla makes the Cybertruck at the Gigafactory in Austin, but also produces the Model Y there and is working on its next-generation vehicle.
Some workers in others Tesla Factories in Sparks, Nevada, and Fremont, California, BI said they were still scheduled for full 12-hour shifts. The factory workers electric car manufacturer typically work three to four days per week.
A Tesla spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tesla has begun to take into account the effects of the declining demand for electric vehicles to feel. Earlier this month, the company’s first-quarter delivery numbers were well below Wall Street expectations. The company recorded the first decline of deliveries year-on-year since 2020.
On Saturday, some Tesla employees told BI that they were worried about extensive layoffs do that could take place as early as this weekend.
It is unclear how many Cybertrucks Tesla has delivered to date. While Tesla’s last balance sheet conference In January, Elon Musk said the Cybertruck was almost sold out for 2024.
“This is a production constraint situation, not a demand constraint situation,” Musk said at the time.
Tesla brought the Cybertruck on the market in November. The company’s Austin factory is responsible for producing the vehicle, which Musk said requires a high level of precision due to the truck’s sharp lines.
Before the vehicle’s market launch, Musk warned that Tesla was dealing with the Cybertruck dug his own grave” and that it would take years to ramp up production. According to Musk, Tesla wants to produce 250,000 Cybertrucks per year by 2025.
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