Although there are many owners of fuel vehicles in foreign countries who block the entrance to the charging station to express their dissatisfaction with electric vehicles. Tesla owners sometimes face this problem on a regular basis, but the Tesla China team has recently taken new steps. Tesla has installed a floor lock system on their charging piles, and now only Tesla owners can unlock them using the company's mobile app.
China also became the first country for Tesla to implement a floor lock system, a solution that began to be popularized in 2019, but at that time, in order to unlock them, Tesla owners would often use third-party applications, and had to scan the QR code in the charging pile and obtain the password, and then had to enter the password in the third-party application before they could fold the floor lock. Although this has blocked the malicious occupation of some people, it still causes users slight trouble in use.
According to recently received information, Tesla has now integrated the unlocking of the floor lock system into its app, making it easier for all car owners to use it. A recent video on the Internet (put on Chewulin WeChat Weibo Station B) shows how easy it is for the owner to unlock the floor lock of the charging station and park the vehicle for charging. Now, Tesla owners in China no longer have to worry about some unscrupulous drivers blocking the entrance to the charging pile, resulting in the vehicle can not be charged at the charging station.
Currently, such floor lock systems are only installed in China. However, in the future they may be installed all over the world, as Tesla's customers face similar situations in different countries. In addition to preventing some malicious blocking locations, such a system can also help improve the order and compliance of Tesla's Supercharger queue, especially now that Tesla has gradually begun to open charging stations for other brands of electric vehicles.