Tesla Says Using Wet Cloth On Supercharger Cables Does Not Increase Charging Speeds, Warns Customers Of 'Risk Of Overheating Or Damage'
Tesla Says Using Wet Cloth On Supercharger Cables Does Not Increase Charging Speeds, Warns Customers Of 'Risk Of Overheating Or Damage'
EV giant Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) took to social media platform X earlier this week to warn customers against putting wet towels on supercharger cable handles to speed up charging their EVs.
上周，电动汽车巨头特斯拉公司（NASDAQ：TSLA）在社交媒体平台（X）上警告客户不要用湿毛巾放在超级充电器电缆手柄上来加速充电他们的电动汽车。
What Happened: Placing a wet cloth on supercharger handles does not increase charging speed but instead increases risks of overheating or damage as it interferes with temperature monitors, Tesla said.
发生了什么：在超级充电器手柄上放置湿布不会增加充电速度，而是会增加过热或损坏的风险，因为它会干扰温度监控器，特斯拉说。
"Please refrain from doing this so our systems can run correctly, and true charging issues can be detected by our systems," Tesla wrote via its handle dedicated to charging updates.
“请不要这样做，以便我们的系统可以正确运行，并且可以通过我们的系统检测到真正的充电问题，”特斯拉通过其专门用于充电更新的处理程序写道。
Placing a wet cloth on Supercharger cable handles does not increase charging rates and interferes with temperature monitors creating risk of overheating or damage. Please refrain from doing this so our systems can run correctly, and true charging issues can be detected by our...
— Tesla Charging (@TeslaCharging) July 25, 2024
在超级充电器的电缆手柄上放置湿毛巾不能增加充电速率，反而会干扰温度监测器，增加过热或损坏的风险。请不要这样做，以便我们的系统可以运行正确，并且能够检测到真正的充电问题......
—— 特斯拉充电(@TeslaCharging) 2024年7月25日
The company was responding to the hack of cooling charging cables with wet cloths to enable faster charging doing the rounds again on social media ahead of the summer.
该公司正在回应冷却充电电缆的黑客攻击，这些电缆上的湿布可以在空前夏季到来之前再次快速充电，从而带来更多的风险。
Tesla's charger slows down charging pace on sensing excess temperature as in summers when the sun heats the cable and putting a wet towel on the cable helps bring this temperature down, thereby allowing a higher charging rate, proponents of the hack believe.
支持这种黑客行为的人认为，特斯拉的充电器会在感知到过多温度时降低充电速率，就像在夏季阳光加热电缆时，将湿毛巾放在电缆上有助于降低温度，从而允许更高的充电速率。
Why It Matters: Earlier this week, Tesla said that the company had 59,596 supercharger connectors around the globe as of the end of the second quarter, or 24% more than the corresponding quarter of 2023.
为什么重要：上周早些时候，特斯拉表示，截至第二季度末，该公司在全球范围内拥有59,596个超级充电器连接器，比2023年对应季度增长24％。
The growth rate of superchargers, however, has slowed significantly since the company announced plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce in April. The layoffs impacted 500 members of the supercharging team and Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla's then Senior Director of Charging Infrastructure, left the company.
然而，自今年4月份宣布裁员全球10％的计划以来，超级充电站的增长率显著放缓。裁员影响了充电团队的500名成员，并且负责充电基础设施的资深董事Rebecca Tinucci已离开公司。
Superchargers grew only 3.5% from the end of the first quarter to the second, significantly lower than the quarter-on-quarter growth of 7.4% in the number of superchargers recorded through the fourth quarter. Even through the first quarter of 2024, supercharger numbers grew by 4.9%.
从第一季度末到第二季度末，超级充电器的增长仅为3.5％，远低于第四季度中记录的超级充电器数量季度同比增长率的7.4％。即使在2024年第一季度，超级充电数量也增长了4.9％。
However, the company will invest $500 million in expanding the supercharger network this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at the company's annual shareholder meeting last month, while also keeping an eye on capital efficiency and the places they are deployed.
但是，特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克在公司的年度股东大会上表示，该公司将在今年投资5000万美元扩大超级充电网络，并且还会注意资本效率和它们部署的地点。
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