Recently, Tesla has made a big news, without warning, it will increase the price of overcharging overtime occupancy fee from 2.6 yuan / minute to 6.4 yuan / minute, more than doubled. That is to say, if the owner parks for an extra hour in the overcharged parking space, he will be charged 384 yuan, which can be said to be outrageously high.
Tesla's approach has caused a lot of controversy, some people attack it is crazy for money, and another part of the people are very much in favor of Tesla's approach, saying that if the charging parking spaces are as good as Tesla's, and it is recommended that all manufacturers follow suit, they should give those users who have no quality on the strength.
Is Tesla's approach reasonable? Let the kung fu car take everyone to see it together.
(1) Manufacturers spend countless efforts, a low-quality user can be destroyed?
A few years ago, there was a joke that Jobs spent countless efforts to make the phone thinner and higher resolution. In order to select the best resolution screen, countless tests were conducted, and in order to make the phone thinner, and even new materials were discovered. As a result, as soon as it was sold to the user, a shell was immediately added to a film, all in vain.
And this thing, in fact, is also happening in the new energy automobile industry, and it is much more serious than the mobile phone.
Taking Tesla's V3 supercharger layout as an example, the maximum charging power it designs is 250kW, and the user measured that it can run up to more than 200kW. In order to achieve such an extreme charging speed, Tesla has done a lot of work, first of all, using a higher voltage electrical platform, so that the vehicle can "withstand" the ultra-fast charging speed, followed by a large thick cable to reduce the resistance, which further improves the charging efficiency. With no experience to follow, Tesla can be said to have done quite a few trials to mass-produce this technology.
In order to further reduce the charging time, Tesla has also made adjustments in terms of software. For example, if the owner is ready to navigate to the overcharge station, the vehicle will heat the battery in advance on the way, so that when the supercharge station is reached, the power battery is already at the right temperature, which can reduce the charging time and further shorten the charging time.
In fact, other manufacturers are the same, in order to achieve faster charging speed, it can be said that a lot of time, energy, research and development funds have been invested, just in order to allow users to charge the time can be further shortened.
But the effect is not as good as imagined, and the charging pile is still tense when it should be tense. Because the biggest problem at present is actually not that the charging is not fast enough. People who often look for charging parking spaces must know that oil trucks occupy new energy special parking spaces, and they are not removed in time after the trams are full, which can be said to be the two major nemesis of charging now. Don't say that fast charging now generally takes more than half an hour, even if it is reduced to ten minutes, this problem is not solved, and the charging pile is still not enough.
Before some people proposed to predict, if electric vehicles eventually popularize, charging speed really reached ten minutes full, and then the amount of fuel vehicles on the market are replaced by electric vehicles, but also must be like gas stations with special service personnel, because there are too many low-quality people, even if they can be full for 1 minute, he is full of no way not to go.
Not to mention that many people are superstitious about charging more batteries and using some, even if they are full of staying for a while, it is not wrong, anyway, they are coming. This is actually a certain reason, overcharge will indeed make the power on the basis of full power and then increase a little, the impact is to delay the later people. After all, everyone goes to the gas station to refuel, but few people don't leave after refueling.
(2) Increase the overtime occupation fee of overcharge, Tesla is also helpless?
As mentioned earlier, Tesla has thought of many ways to improve the speed of energy replenishment, including preheating the battery for the car driving to the charging pile. In fact, it also has a lot of innovations in the treatment of charging parking spaces.
For example, for the problem of the occupancy of gasoline vehicles, tesla in the early days still used ground locks and joint supervision with the owner to manage. Tesla laid out a part of the ground lock with video unlock function, that is, the on-site camera can automatically identify the vehicle, only when tesla's car drives into the overcharge site, the ground lock will automatically lift the owner to drive in. But this is also not a long-term solution, Tesla has recently been pushing to open up the supercharging network to third-party EV brands.
Because the cooperation and opening of supercharge piles has become a major trend, for example, Xiaopeng and Weilai have reached an agreement on the mutual opening of supercharging, and the two of them already have more than 2,000 supercharge piles that can be interconnected. If Tesla is slow to open, it will sooner or later be isolated by other manufacturers, so as to gradually marginalize. After all, in the end, charging piles belong to infrastructure projects, and it is necessary to rely on collective wisdom and efforts to become bigger and stronger.
And Tesla has also made a lot of plans, such as when the power is about to be full, Tesla APP will send out a prompt, the owner can monitor the charging status of the vehicle in real time. Moreover, the owner does not charge a overtime fee if he drives away within five minutes after charging, and the overtime occupation fee will be charged by the minute after more than 5 minutes. Tesla also stressed that not all cases charge overtime fees, if there is only one car at the supercharging station, then no matter how long the customer stays, it will not charge, but once the utilization rate reaches 100%, it will start to charge at 6.4 yuan / minute. Tesla's claim is that doing so can improve the utilization of charging piles and serve more people.
It can be seen that Tesla is still more intentional. If the customer really "head iron" to stop, it belongs to the category of willing to fight.
(3) Is the sky-high fee reasonable, and how to identify special circumstances?
There is another controversy about Tesla's approach, that is, whether the charge is reasonable. After all, even if this is a business, it is necessary to pay attention to the famous teacher. At that time, Qingdao's "sky-high price prawn" incident once triggered heated discussions, not that the merchant simply said that he clearly marked the price, and the user had to accept it. Whether Tesla's collection of this money is reasonable is not yet publicly discussed.
There is also the question of who determines the 100% utilization rate, Tesla said that if the utilization rate reaches 100%, it will charge overtime occupancy fees. Whether this data refers to the number of vehicles entering or whether each charging pile is saturated is also not clearly stated.
For car owners, it is true that the current charging time is still a bit long. Most people basically do not choose to stay in the charging car from beginning to end during the charging process. In this way, in the event of special circumstances, you may have to pay a sky-high parking fee. There may also be people who have unplugged the charging gun, but the car is still parked there, and the system may not be able to recognize it. These special circumstances cannot be exhaustive, but they are all to be taken into account.
In essence, using the charging pile occupancy fee to alleviate the charging tension is actually the same as alleviating road congestion by raising oil prices and car prices. It does have a certain effect, but it is not the solution to the problem.
(4) Wisdom drives public theory
In general, there is no end to everything, Tesla also wants to create a good charging environment, and has done a lot of work. Charging a high placeholder fee many people said that they can't understand, but it is indeed a way to improve the utilization rate of charging piles at present, and from the reaction of netizens, everyone is still more supportive of this practice.
At present, the biggest opposition is tesla owners, some of whom feel that they have been cut leeks. But to be honest, compared to the owners who bought Teslas at a sky-high price in previous years, this is even a small wind and a small wave.