Mike Snyder, the Tesla vice president who has run the company's energy storage business and its Supercharger network as one organisation since October 2024, has stepped down. The Wall Street Journal reported the move on Thursday 15 October 2026, citing people familiar with it. AJ Booth, Tesla's senior director of energy products engineering, will succeed him, according to the report. Reuters carried the story but said it could not verify it independently, and Tesla did not respond to its request for comment. No statement from Snyder has been reported.
What Snyder ran
Snyder joined Tesla in 2014 and rose to lead Megapack, the grid-scale battery business. In October 2024 his LinkedIn profile showed a new title, Vice President Energy and Charging. The role merged Megapack, Powerwall and solar with charging infrastructure, electrive reported at the time, just under six months after Tesla dismissed its Supercharger team. Reuters says the promotion followed the 2024 restructuring that removed several top executives, among them longtime energy chief Drew Baglino.
| The handover | Detail |
|---|---|
| Departing | Mike Snyder, Vice President Energy and Charging since October 2024 |
| At Tesla since | 2014 |
| Successor | AJ Booth, senior director of energy products engineering |
| Reported by | Wall Street Journal, 15 October 2026 |
| Confirmed by Tesla | No |
| Storage deployed in Q3 2026 | 13.7 GWh, up 9.6% year on year |
| Energy share of revenue, H1 2026 | about 11% (cars about 70%) |
The business he leaves
Tesla deployed 13.7 GWh of storage in the third quarter, its second-best quarter on record and 9.6% more than a year earlier, by Reuters' count. Energy still made up only about 11% of revenue in the first half of the year, against roughly 70% from cars.
Europe is a growing part of that order book. Tesla signed a 25 GWh Megapack agreement with NatPower for Italy and Britain in June and about 3 GWh with Zhero in Italy in September. In August Megapack 3 production started at the new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas. Booth's title puts him on the engineering side of those products.
What it means for Supercharger users in Europe
Neither report gives Booth's new title or says whether the Supercharger network stays inside the energy organisation. Tesla has announced nothing about pricing, new sites or access for other brands, so nothing changes at a European Supercharger today.
The precedent is why the question matters. In April 2024 Tesla let go of Supercharger head Rebecca Tinucci and almost all of her roughly 500-person team. Part of the team was rehired later, and Snyder's combined role came out of that shake-up. Nothing comparable has been reported this time.
Another exit the same week
Jody Kerns, the senior manager who ran Cybercab general assembly at Giga Texas, has joined Rivian as director of general assembly for the R2 at its plant in the town of Normal, Illinois. The move comes from a LinkedIn post reported by Not a Tesla App on 15 October.
What to watch
Tesla reports third-quarter results after the US market close on Wednesday 21 October. The Q&A webcast starts at 5:30 pm Eastern Time, which is 23:30 in Central Europe. It is Tesla's first scheduled chance to confirm the change and to say who now answers for the Supercharger network.