electric amika tesla has to cut almost a tenth of its workforce needing more than three thousand people will lose their jobs in an e-mail to stop c.e.o. elon musk wrote what drives us is our mission to accelerate the world transition to sustainable clean energy but we will never achieve that mission unless we eventually demonstrate that we can be sustainably profitable. that's a lofty mission statement that's certainly come at a cost in its fifteen years of existence tesla has not has not once turned an annual profit but in recent times the situation has worsened the first quarter of this year the company posted more than seven hundred million dollars in losses its worst ever performance that along with other problems like the departure of senior staff and crashes involving electric cars and self driving mode has prompted the company to restructure key to efforts to finally drive a profit is this the top selling model of three cities the plan is to increase production from the current three thousand five hundred a week to five thousand a target is hoping to reach as soon as the end of j