Tesla to cut hundreds more jobs in Musk cost push: report [Video]

Tesla plans hundreds of additional job cuts beyond a recent company-wide layoff as it cracks down on costs in a tough electric vehicle market, according to a US media report.

Elon Musk’s EV company, which moved earlier this month to cut more than 10 percent of its 140,000 employes, will disband two departments and lay off most of the employees from the groups, reported the Information late Monday.

The online technology publication quoted from a Musk email in which he vowed to be “absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction.”

Musk will seek to oust any executive “who retains more than three people who don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test … I have been super clear about this,” said Musk’s email, according to the Information.

The latest cuts mean Rebecca …