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Today, several photos of the scene of Tesla's bicycle accident and related chat records circulated in the car circle. When Tesla Model Y, whose license plate number starts with Su B, reversed his car, the left and rear side of the vehicle directly crashed into the right corner of the house, causing serious damage and distortion to the rear corner of the vehicle.

Car owners are usually depressed when they encounter this kind of thing, but fortunately, whether it is a collision with other models, or their own driving accident, they can use car insurance to settle claims. However, Tesla's staff told the owner the maintenance price on Monday, and the owner became even more depressed. Tesla staff said that when the maintenance cost was 200000, the owner said, "it's so expensive, the car is only 28," and "the car might as well be scrapped." Perhaps he did not expect that this accidental collision knocked down 71% of the car price, and most netizens who saw the news also held the attitude of letting the car be scrapped.

From the perspective of car insurance, if the maintenance price is higher than the salvage value of the vehicle, then the vehicle can indeed be bought directly by the insurance company and scrapped directly. At present, we do not know the actual salvage value of the vehicle in question, and whether the insurance company will let the owner take cash instead of a seriously repaired car. The current information is not comprehensive, temporarily do not know the final maintenance price of the vehicle and how to deal with the vehicle.

If we usually come into contact with the huge maintenance costs of vehicle accidents, the scene will usually be "heroic". In comparison, the car damage shown at the scene of the two accidents was quite minor, and the photos were also sent to a group. the members of the group guessed that the maintenance cost was 50, 000 yuan, which deviated greatly from Tesla's fixed loss price. it also exceeds the cognition of most netizens. Some people in the automobile industry believe that this may be related to insurance as well as Tesla's product characteristics and maintenance.

At the end of last year, special insurance for new energy vehicles was introduced, and major insurance companies used special premium algorithms for new energy vehicles. As a result, the premiums of many models rose one after another. Tesla bore the brunt of the increase in premiums by 6000 yuan overnight, according to several Model Y owners online, and the insurance company then adjusted some of the premium calculations. Obviously, in the view of insurance companies, the maintenance cost of new energy vehicles is higher. If the maintenance cost of Model Y in this incident is really as high as 200000, then the premium increase of the model seems to be reasonable.

On the other hand, the high maintenance price may also be related to Tesla's production process. Tesla adopts the technology of integrated die-casting car body based on the consideration of production efficiency and production cost. Through the integrated die casting machine, the front and rear body of the vehicle can be directly cast. The advantage is that the number of parts of the car body is greatly reduced, and the production complexity and production time are reduced, which is a great progress for the production cost. According to the information disclosed by Tesla, this production process is currently used in Tesla Model Y's rear soleplate, and it is in Tesla's production improvement plan. The front and middle parts of the car are built in a die-cast way, just like building blocks.

But at the same time, when the related parts of the vehicle are damaged in the later stage, they can only be repaired by the way of overall replacement. coincidentally, Model Y is the earliest model to adopt this production technology, and if the owner of Tesla has a minor accident but a large maintenance cost, it is most likely due to this reason. The three major technologies of 4680 batteries, CTC technology and integrated die-casting car body are regarded as Tesla's current skills, and Tesla showed this technology to the outside world during the celebration of the completion of his German factory last year.

Tesla's four plants around the world-- Fremont, California, USA, Austin, Texas, Berlin, Germany, and Shanghai, China-- have installed this ultra-large die casting machine to produce Model Y integrated rear soles.

When a more centralized templated production vehicle is realized, the structure of the vehicle becomes simpler, but it may also lead to more major surgeries due to minor accidents. At present, more and more car companies are using this technology for vehicle production, perhaps when there are more enough cases, we can see the emergence of reasonable maintenance programs.

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