Source: China Fund News
According to the Securities Times, recently, some netizens responded that when they were driving the Tesla Model 3, they received a prompt that "the super charging service has been disabled", and the system showed that the supercharge fee that it needed to pay reached 3.8463 million yuan.
What exactly happened? Let's take a look...
Tesla charged more than 3.8 million yuan at a time?
The company responded urgently
On March 6, the above netizens posted a screenshot showing that the last time they used Tesla's supercharger pile this year was on February 27, spending 3.8463 million yuan, before that, it was free supercharging.
According to the netizen, it received a reminder on March 5 that its supercharger station service has been disabled because it has unpaid fees, and this part of the fee may be composed of charging fees and overtime occupation fees, and if you need to continue to use the supercharger service, you need to pay.
In the face of the "sky-high" charging bill, the netizen raised questions and called Tesla's official customer service. The other party responded that there are currently some vehicles with errors in the back-end system, and the technicians are repairing them, or will solve the problem within 24 hours.
6.4 yuan per minute "parking fee"
Some netizens speculated that it may be that after the above netizens moved the car, the system did not record it, resulting in a sky-high overtime occupation fee.
According to a photo of a Tesla supercharger posted by a well-known digital blogger @ Technology Xinyi, the overtime occupancy fee is up to 6.40 yuan / minute, and the maximum cost per hour is 384 yuan.
The fund jun was also stunned by this price. Fund Jun did not find the explanation of overtime occupancy fees on Tesla's official website. But find a note on the official micro of Tesla's China charging team.
In April 2020, Tesla's China charging team confirmed that when there is no free parking space at the supercharger station, a overtime occupancy fee of 6.4 yuan per minute will be charged.
Tesla said it was doing this to improve the utilization rate of charging piles. According to Tesla's vision, in the future scenario, after the vehicle is fully charged, it can automatically drive away from the charging station, but at present, the owner also needs to take the initiative to vacate the parking space after the vehicle is fully charged.
It is understood that as early as 2016, Tesla introduced the parking space occupancy rules, if the parking space is not vacated 5 minutes after full charge, it will be charged a "resource occupation fee". Previously, the fee was $2.60 per minute.
In 2019, the policy was revised, and the charging standard was raised to 3.2 yuan / minute for idle time (less than 50% of idle parking spaces) and 6.4 yuan / minute for busy time (no free parking spaces).
It is understood that Tesla's parking space occupancy standard is basically the same around the world, according to the standard of 0.5 US dollars / minute in idle time and 1 US dollar / min in busy time.
Netizen: Strongly supported
In the past, Tesla's various news, spit, said cool words of netizens abounded, but this time the opinions of netizens are surprisingly one-sided, many netizens expressed support.
Some netizens said that only Tesla's super charging pile has a timeout fee, the State Grid and third parties do not have a timeout fee, Tesla's concept is to let the fully charged owner leave quickly, so that the car owner who wants to charge later will maximize the resources. The practice of charging overtime fees is not good to look at dialectically. Anyway, I have not used supercharging, all charged in the national grid, the speed is also good
Most netizens expressed strong support for charging overtime occupancy fees.
It seems that many netizens are as distressed as the fund jun that "public charging piles have been occupied for a long time".
It is understood that as of January 2022, the number of superchargering stations opened for tesla in Chinese mainland has exceeded 1,000, with more than 8,000 supercharging piles, with more than 700 destination charging piles and more than 1,800 destination charging piles, covering more than 360 cities and regions Chinese mainland.
Among them, the Tesla V3 supercharger has a peak power of 250kW, and it can supplement the 250 km endurance by charging for 15 minutes.
However, in addition to Tesla' other new energy vehicles, there are many problems such as long charging time and long-term occupation of charging bits.
Members of the two sessions made suggestions on the "planning", "fast charging" and "power exchange" of charging piles
At this year's two sessions, many deputies and members also put forward their own suggestions for problems such as poor user charging experience and slim profit prospects in the charging industry.
Nan Cunhui, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Chint Group, found in the survey that due to the lack of overall charging network planning in the city, the complex construction process of car owners, and the tight power capacity of the community, it is difficult to install charging piles, and the number of charging piles installed is far from keeping up with the growth of new energy vehicles. The existing charging piles have problems such as inadequate maintenance management, unreasonable layout, and prominent safety hazards.
To this end, he suggested that the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Energy Administration, together with relevant ministries and commissions, study and formulate a development plan for charging and replacing infrastructure as soon as possible, clearly support the promotion of the development model of global intelligent charging networks, and give fiscal and tax policy support.
In view of the high-power fast charging facilities, Lei Jun, a deputy to the National People's Congress and founder of Xiaomi, suggested that a new generation of high-power fast charging network planning schemes should be formulated, and key goals such as construction scale, land use planning, and charging capacity should be clarified. At the same time, we will promote the formulation, unification and application of technical standards and communication protocols, formulate a three-year special action timetable, and give priority to promoting the interconnection of high-power fast-charging piles in the stock of scarce resources such as new investment and construction, core business districts and highways.
Yin Tongyue, deputy to the National People's Congress, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Chery Automobile Co., Ltd., proposed that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology study and improve the conversion, trading and dispatch mechanism of new energy vehicles and storage and discharge of green electricity, and explore the integrated pilot application of "light storage, charging and discharging" in the unit and the internal charging facilities of the park.
Li Shufu, a deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Geely Holding Group, also stressed the importance of "standardization" to the power exchange model in the proposal.
He suggested that we should accelerate the standardization and generalization of power exchange modes. Promote the standardization of hardware and software protocols for power exchange interfaces, and preset 2 to 3 technologically advanced interface forms to formulate recommended standards. At the same time, the mechanism, form and compatibility of the substation are standardized and constrained, so that the technologically advanced substation can be recommended as a priority. In addition, the standard formulation of battery packs should be promoted, so that battery packs can be truly interchanged between different car companies, different power stations, and different users.