On February 24, Tesla held a T-talk offline sharing seminar with the theme of "Tesla's five-star safety" in Tai'an, and held a test drive activity. Tesla lecturers explained to the participating guests in depth how Tesla implements its dedication to safety and quality, realizes the "five-star safety" standard of the whole series, and provides users with a full range of security protection. During the test drive, the strong active safety performance of Tesla vehicles left a deep impression on the participants who experienced it in person.
Wang Shiting, head of regional sales at Tesla Shandong, said that from the concept to the creation of infrastructure, to the testing of parts and subsystems, and the testing of the whole vehicle, Tesla has taken "safety" as the benchmark and starting point to protect the travel safety of each car owner. At the same time, Tesla's service and charging network in Qilu Dadi has expanded rapidly, providing local consumers with a one-stop car purchase experience and a global unified high-level after-sales service, as well as a convenient charging experience of extremely fast replenishment. With the continuous deepening of cultivation in Shandong, Tesla will bring users more convenient and warm services, and convey the concept of green travel to more consumers.
Passive safety | is the ultimate protection of safety
As we all know, Tesla has a very strict high standard in safety design, and all models are made of high-strength steel, aluminum alloy and aerospace-grade materials, and have obtained five-star safety certification in more than 20 safety rating agencies around the world. For example, in the tests of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the European Union New Car Safety Evaluation Association (Euro NCAP), and the Australian New Car Safety Evaluation Association (ANCAP), they have all obtained five-star safety ratings, and won the Top Safety Pick+ Safety Award in the test of the American Highway Safety Insurance Association (IIHS), and also obtained excellent results in the test of the China Insurance Automobile Safety Index (C-IASI).
Among them, Model 3 not only received NHTSA all five-star safety rating, ENCAP full five-star rating, but also won the IIHS SAFETY PICK+ top safety award. In the U.S. government's New Car Evaluation Program, the Model 3 vehicle has a lower probability of injury than any vehicle it tests.
The rigidity and structure of the body is an important criterion for measuring passive safety. At the T-talk scene, Tesla and the guests had an in-depth discussion on the Model 3 white body. Model 3 body adopts steel and aluminum hybrid material body frame, H-shaped collision avoidance structure and laser welding, resistance welding, riveting, gluing and other advanced connection processes, which can effectively reduce the risk of vehicle deformation in vehicle collision accidents while improving the strength of the body. Tesla has also reinforced the anti-collision parts such as A-pillar and B-pillar, which can effectively reduce the deformation of the door frame during the bias collision.
Model 3 body-in-white
Electric vehicles should also pay attention to the protection of batteries. On the one hand, the two longitudinal beams in the Model 3 battery pack replace the traditional longitudinal beams, and use the 1700Mpa left and right through roller pressure beams to ensure the effective transmission of the crash force, better protect the passengers and batteries in the car from being squeezed, and improve battery safety.
Model 3 beam (martensitic steel)
Active safety | nearly 9 times more secure
Not only passive safety, Tesla vehicles also actively guard users' travel through intelligent empowerment. Tesla's "Fourth Quarter 2021 Vehicle Safety Report" data show that in the fourth quarter of 2021, in the average 431 miles (about 6.94 million kilometers) of driving distance, there will be 1 traffic accident in the driving process with the participation of Autopilot automatic driver assistance, a safety increase of 25% year-on-year; in the driving process without Autopilot automatic assisted driving participation, but with active safety functions, There were 2.71 traffic accidents, and safety increased by 20% year-on-year.
Meanwhile, the latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that the average U.S. traffic accident occurs in the average of 8.9 out of every 431 miles (about 6.94 million kilometers) of driving distance. Tesla Autopilot automatic assisted driving makes driving safety 8.9 times the US average.
Tesla's ultra-high safety in terms of active safety is mainly reflected in Autopilot automatic assisted driving. At present, all Tesla models are equipped with Autopilot automatic driving as standard, which achieves a 360-degree field of view through a combination of sensors such as cameras, and the Tesla Vision vision processing system can fully perceive the driving environment to reduce accidents, improve driving safety, and make driving easier.
During the test drive session of the event, the participants experienced autopilot autonomous assisted driving at zero distance. "Autopilot is very sensitive, when there is an oncoming car on the side, the vehicle reacts faster than the person, and the side collision prevention will ensure that the vehicle automatically steers to a safer position," one experiencer said, "and it can also help me maintain a very suitable distance, and with the recovery of kinetic energy, it also makes driving easier." ”
With the continuous evolution and improvement of autonomous driving functions, Tesla vehicles can continue to be upgraded through OTA over-the-air software updates. In the future, the upgraded vehicle will be able to achieve fully autonomous driving in almost all cases, providing users with a smarter and safer travel experience.
Tesla attaches great importance to the Shandong market, not only bringing safe and intelligent products to consumers, but also quickly improving the local charging network, so that every car owner can replenish worry-free. Since the completion of Tesla's first supercharger station in Shandong Province in Qingdao in 2014, Tesla has built 40 superchargering stations and 287 superchargering piles in Shandong, covering 16 prefecture-level cities in Shandong Province, and officially completed the full coverage of supercharger stations in Shandong Province in September 2021. In Tai'an, where the event was held, Tesla built a super charging station at the Ramada Dongzun Hotel, with 6 V3 supercharger piles, providing energy replenishment convenience for Tai'an car owners. For more than 7 years, Tesla's charging network in Shandong has provided more than 50,000 charging services for car owners, with a charging mileage of nearly 10 million kilometers.
Tesla has always adhered to the principle of "user-centric", comprehensively protected the travel safety of car owners, and reflected the design concept of "safety first" in each Tesla model. Tesla held a safety-themed T-talk event in Tai'an, demonstrating the importance it attaches to the user's travel experience. It is believed that with the efforts of Tesla, Tesla owners will continue to enjoy a safe and intelligent driving experience.