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Tesla has gutted its charging team in a new round of layoffs, despite recently winning over major automakers like Ford and General Motors and making its connector the defacto standard in North America. Tesla's Supercharger network has long been seen as one of its greatest competitive advantages. It's widely available, has far better uptime than other charging networks, and the connector technology -- known as the North American Charging Standard, or NACS -- is now being adopted by essentially every major automaker with a presence in North America.