The price of being handsome! Rimless door freezes to death: Tesla's solution

Although new energy vehicles such as pure electric vehicles are becoming more and more popular, winter is obviously an unfriendly season for electric vehicles. Low temperatures will not only reduce battery charge and discharge efficiency, but also significantly reduce battery life. And some Tesla even opened the doors.

A few days ago, Tesla added the "Cold Weather improvement" (cold weather improvements) function to the vehicle through the latest software update, so as to solve the problem of Tesla users using the car in winter.

Earlier, some owners of Tesla's Model 3 reported that in some cold areas in winter, the Model 3 would not open because the doors were frozen and the windows were frozen.

Because the Model 3 uses hidden door handles and frameless doors, the unlocking rear door handles have to pop out automatically to open the door, and the window may slide slightly when opening the door, so the freezing causes the Model 3 doors to be "sealed" in winter.

To make matters worse, the plug on the car's charging interface will be frozen in the cold winter, making it impossible to disconnect the charging line from the car.

After the application of the new function, Tesla changed the mechanism of the charging port and will not lock the charging plug in place, reducing the possibility of being frozen. In addition, the heat flow is directed to the window through an upgrade to make it easier to open the door in cold weather, and this preheating function can also be operated directly through the mobile app.