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A Tesla owner posted a screenshot of his Tesla charging fee on the Internet on Sept. 18. As can be seen from the picture, the Tesla user's super charging and overtime usage fee reached 1706.06 yuan. Among them, the main cost is the overtime occupancy fee of 449minutes, the cost is 3.2yuan per minute, and the total overtime cost is 1436.8 yuan.

The fee has also sparked a heated debate on the Internet, but most netizens are supportive. One netizen commented: it is not that there is no advance notice, what can be said, I think this is good, originally this is a shared charging pile, is reserved for people in need, you do not use it all night, this is not a waste of public resources. Another netizen said: "it's good, that's it. The charging pile is a social resource, and if you occupy it, you will definitely be fined." but some netizens said that the amount of the fine was a little too high.

It is worth mentioning that it can be seen from the official calculation of overtime occupancy charges that overtime occupancy charges will be incurred if the vehicle has been recharged but is still parked in the charging space. If the vehicle leaves the charging space within 5 minutes after the start of charging, the overtime charge will not be charged. The overtime occupancy fee will only be incurred when the free parking space in the overcharging station is less than or equal to 50%. When there is no free parking space at the supercharging station, you will face a double overtime charge.

In response to the netizen's issue of overtime occupancy fee as high as 1700, Tesla customer service also responded that: this fee is not capped, it is suggested to avoid the cost as far as possible. It said that there is no charge for moving the car within 5 minutes after Tesla's charging is completed. In addition, it also indicates that overtime occupancy will be incurred when the free parking space in the overcharging station is less than or equal to 50%. For example, if there are 10 piles at the scene and the occupancy rate is only 4 piles or less, there will be no overtime occupancy fee, but if the car is parked at the scene, its occupancy rate may exceed in a certain period of time, and in this case the car owner may not see it, but in fact, it will also run out of time, so it is recommended to move the car as soon as it is recharged.

In fact, with the rapid development of new energy vehicles, the problem of difficult charging has always existed. Although the charging infrastructure is also constantly improving, car companies in many places are equipped with charging piles. However, once there is a holiday when car owners travel together, these facilities are obviously not enough. In addition, there are some problems of occupying charging facilities. To this end, different car companies, third-party charging App will take to occupy the charging facilities to charge a certain overtime occupancy fee, Xiaopeng Motor is to hit the charge pile hegemony, to maintain the charging order slogan.

Of course, each car company and third-party charging App charge overtime charges are different. For example, Tesla's overtime occupancy fee is 3.20 yuan per minute. Xiaopeng's overtime occupancy fee is 1 yuan per minute when the vehicle is in a non-charging state and accumulatively occupies parking spaces or charges a charging gun for more than 30 minutes. The charge overtime occupancy fee of Xilai car is 0.5 yuan per minute after charging for more than 15 minutes, with a cap of 50 yuan; the overtime occupancy fee of polar krypton is charged after more than 30 minutes, with a charge standard of 1 yuan per minute and a cap of 50 yuan. Judging from the overtime occupancy fees of several new car-building forces, caps have been set up. However, Tesla is not capped on the top, and we can see that Tesla has a relatively high charging standard for overtime occupation.

As for Tesla's high overtime occupancy fee, some industry insiders said: although the number of charging piles has increased rapidly in recent years, many new energy vehicle owners still face the problem of not having charging piles or being unable to use them. The charging standard of the charging pile operator is for charging service, not for parking service. It is appropriate for the operator to charge overtime occupancy fee, but there must be a reasonable tolerance period.

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