Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, everyone's emphasis on life safety has gone up to a new level, after all, there is a future to survive. In the automotive field, there is a brand with frequent safety accidents, but sales have remained high, which is a strange phenomenon that can't help but let Xiaobian find out.
On April 19, 2021, a windy and sunny afternoon, on the roof of the Tesla booth of the Shanghai Auto Show, a female owner of Henan Tesla wore a red T-shirt on a white background, which was impressively printed with "brake failure", and with Tesla's brand LOGO, which triggered the crowd to watch, and was forcibly taken away from the scene by the exhibition security personnel, Xiaobian particularly admired the female owner's awareness of rights protection.
After this incident, the police intervened in the investigation, and the two sides also sued each other, and the incident was very tortuous. Fortunately, in the end, Tesla and the female owner reached a mediation, Tesla recycled the vehicle and signed a confidentiality agreement with the female owner.
This is not just an isolated case, Tesla brake failures occur from time to time.
On March 7, 2021, a car owner in Tianjin had a rear-end accident while driving in the fast lane. Tesla said that the background data shows that the owner of the car stepped on the brakes, but the force was very small, and the owner made it clear that he stepped on the brakes directly to the end. It is as if the public is justified, and the mother-in-law is polite. Xiaobian said that it is still necessary for Tesla owners to install a camera on the brake pedal.
On March 11, 2021, a Tesla owner in Hainan also encountered a brake failure incident. According to the owner's description, the speed before braking is about 20km/h to 30km/h, during which a total of three feet of brakes were stepped on, the first two feet of the brakes were not stopped, and after adding a foot of brakes, the vehicle continued to rush forward, directly hitting the blue guardrail in front.
Subsequently, Tesla after-sales staff came to the scene, wanted to explain that it was caused by the man's operation error, so he drove another Tesla to test, simulating the man's braking method, but unfortunately hit the face on the spot, and the staff's Tesla also hit the guardrail. Afterwards Tesla responded because the road surface is slippery, see here Xiaobian is very speechless, that means that Tesla can not drive on rainy days? It is really in response to the phrase "all interpretation rights belong to the merchant" when we drew the lottery.
Why Tesla has so many accidents is always said to be because the user driving is not standardized, this is not a sophistry, there is this statement or because of Tesla's peculiar "single pedal mode".
Tesla stepped on the throttle after if not always under pressure, the speed of the car will drop will be particularly rapid, many people laugh at the throttle brake together, Tesla This model is intended to increase energy recovery, so that the car lasts longer. Many car owners are accustomed to this mode, forming muscle memory, feeling that the speed of the car has been reduced a lot, they will mistakenly think that they have stepped on the brakes, and the dangerous driving behavior of the accelerator as a brake will occur in the panic.
In addition to the single pedal mode, Tesla's
"Ejection start" is also a cause of frequent accidents. There's nothing wrong with accelerating fast, but starting fast in Tesla's single-pedal mode is often the medium for accidents.
Tesla Model3 rear-drive version of the motor maximum power of 275 horsepower, maximum torque of 404 Nm, 100 km /h acceleration of an average of 5.69 seconds, the fastest 5.59 seconds, the maximum speed of 225KM / hour, the power data in the tram in the middle of the level of such a speed monster, once the brake failure, the owner will fall into a very dangerous situation.
It's as if a person is not wrong to eat sugar, but if he has diabetes it can be fatal.
The controversy over the failure of the brakes has not yet settled, life safety is the first, and teslas with safety black spots should have sold dismal sales, but the truth is very different from what we think.
On January 2, 2022, Tesla announced vehicle production and delivery data for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021. According to the data, Tesla's global sales in 2021 increased by about 87.4% year-on-year to 936,000 units. In the fourth quarter, Tesla sold 308,000 units, once again setting a record delivery. At a time when the global automotive industry suffered a "lack of core" impact, Tesla's delivery figures exceeded many people's expectations.
Recently, the China automobile sales data of the Association of Automobiles showed that Tesla delivered 70,847 vehicles in December 2021; in 2021, the annual delivery volume of Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory reached 484,130 units, an increase of 235% year-on-year, accounting for 51.7% of Tesla's total deliveries.
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Why the sales volume is still explosive after the brake failure, I think on the one hand, because of the falling price of real incense (Musk said that the price is going to rise again), more than 200,000 can buy an internationally renowned brand that is full of black technology, and there is a "face" to open out, on the other hand, there are many opinions on safety issues, and it is difficult for us to believe others. Having said all this, please choose rationally.