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.
上週，電動汽車巨頭特斯拉公司（NASDAQ：TSLA）在社交媒體平台（X）上警告客戶不要用溼毛巾放在超級充電器電纜手柄上來加速充電他們的電動汽車。
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.
發生了什麼：在超級充電器手柄上放置溼布不會增加充電速度，而是會增加過熱或損壞的風險，因爲它會干擾溫度監控器，特斯拉說。
"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.
“請不要這樣做，以便我們的系統可以正確運行，並且可以通過我們的系統檢測到真正的充電問題，”特斯拉通過其專門用於充電更新的處理程序寫道。
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
在超級充電器的電纜手柄上放置溼毛巾不能增加充電速率，反而會干擾溫度監測器，增加過熱或損壞的風險。請不要這樣做，以便我們的系統可以運行正確，並且能夠檢測到真正的充電問題......
—— 特斯拉充電(@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.
該公司正在回應冷卻充電電纜的黑客攻擊，這些電纜上的溼布可以在空前夏季到來之前再次快速充電，從而帶來更多的風險。
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.
支持這種黑客行爲的人認爲，特斯拉的充電器會在感知到過多溫度時降低充電速率，就像在夏季陽光加熱電纜時，將溼毛巾放在電纜上有助於降低溫度，從而允許更高的充電速率。
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.
爲什麼重要：上週早些時候，特斯拉表示，截至第二季度末，該公司在全球範圍內擁有59,596個超級充電器連接器，比2023年對應季度增長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月份宣佈裁員全球10％的計劃以來，超級充電站的增長率顯著放緩。裁員影響了充電團隊的500名成員，並且負責充電基礎設施的資深董事Rebecca Tinucci已離開公司。
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%.
從第一季度末到第二季度末，超級充電器的增長僅爲3.5％，遠低於第四季度中記錄的超級充電器數量季度同比增長率的7.4％。即使在2024年第一季度，超級充電數量也增長了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，特斯拉首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克在公司的年度股東大會上表示，該公司將在今年投資5000萬美元擴大超級充電網絡，並且還會注意資本效率和它們部署的地點。
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