What a distinction a 12 months makes. In spring final 12 months, Tesla threw open the doorways of its Texas Gigafactory to traders with a purpose to lay out plans for international domination of the automotive trade with gross sales of 20 million a 12 months.

Now these plans – for a brand new Mexican plant, for an inexpensive ‘next-gen’ Model 2, for a brand new ‘unboxed’ manufacturing course of, for extra gigacasting – basically lie in ruins.

The ‘deep bench’ of executives who took to the stage to elucidate their position within the transformation has been decimated amid a sequence of brutal job cuts.