htmlOn September 22, a Tesla owner from Canada posted a message to share his recent experience. After the Model S was out of power, he was unable to charge it or open the car door. Because the ownership file was locked in the car, he could not sell it, which made him very upset. It is reported that the battery failure problem of this Model S needs to be repaired for RMB 140,000 before it can be restored to normal.
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As a leading brand of smart trams, Tesla's models often have a "technological sense" in design, but in order to reflect its "advanced intelligent system", they stubbornly retain some anti-human characteristics, such as the design without mechanical car keys. According to Mario Seraya, the Canadian Tesla owner, after the Model S was out of power, he could not enter the car and could not charge normally. After sending to maintenance, he found that the battery module was rusted and needed to pay $20,000 to replace the battery before it could be restored. What made him feel dissatisfied was that the door could not be opened completely when the battery was damaged, and such a design was difficult to deal with extreme situations.
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In fact, "invisible unlocking vehicles" is a new trend, but there are indeed fewer designs like Tesla that lack solutions to extreme situations. At present, the Zero-Performance S01 and Changan Oushang X7 Geeker both adopt the design of opening the door without a car key. Almost all of these vehicles use various biometric technology such as faces and fingerprints as unlocking methods, and are also equipped with independent backup batteries. Such a design will at least not be unable to open the door if the main battery module is damaged. Of course, the unlocking method is probably Tesla's persistence in "intelligence". However, according to the subsequent reports of the car owner, the Model S of only drove 77,000 miles and the battery failure problem, which is far from the nominal 300,000 to 500,000 miles. The poor quality control of is the most annoying problem.
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It has to be said that compared with new power brands, traditional car companies are often not so radical in their user experience. For example, some models of car companies such as BMW , BYD have supported opening the door through mobile phone software early on, but this does not mean that traditional mechanical keys must be abandoned. After all, as the only entrance and exit, it is not a bad thing to be more conservative in design. It is worth mentioning that the owner of Tesla reportedly successfully sold this "unpowered" Model S, and its new owner entered the car by breaking glass.
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