On February 10, Tesla downgraded the Model 3 and Model Y cars made in Shanghai, removing one of the two electronic control units in the bogie. It is reported that these vehicles will be sold to China, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and many other markets. According to the U.S. Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC), Tesla's internal information shows that Tesla decided to remove an electronic control unit in the electric power steering system due to a shortage of chips.
Some media contacted Tesla China's official customer service in this regard, and the other party said, "Every vehicle we leave the factory must comply with national regulations." ”
Cheese short review 丨
Under normal circumstances, Tesla Model 3 and Model Y should be installed with two electronic control units, then Tesla "reduced" an electronic control unit, may directly affect the L3 level automatic auxiliary driving function, but will not threaten the daily driving safety, but consumers must always pay attention when using Tesla automatic assisted driving function, can not be completely handed over to the vehicle to take over, if necessary, or need to manually.
Due to the chip problem to "reduce the allocation", not only Tesla, last year the ideal and Xiaopeng also because the millimeter wave radar chip is not available, to provide consumers with a "reduction" car purchase program.
However, this is not the first time that Tesla has been reduced because of chip problems, and last year Tesla secretly canceled the front passenger seat waist support on the Model 3 and Model Y models without informing consumers.
The epidemic has maintained the global "lack of core" for a long time, especially affecting the automotive industry, and consumers have to wait at least 2 months to wait for the car, and some users even need to wait for half a year to deliver the car. However, according to the control of the epidemic situation abroad, the domestic control has been in place, it is better to seek people than to seek oneself, and hope that domestic automotive chip suppliers will break through technical barriers as soon as possible and strive to use domestic substitution.