Water and electricity are rarely a good combination. Now a number of Tesla owners are making the attempt anyway.
They called it 'the wet-towel trick'. So the Tesla owners. And that is literally what happens. A trick with a wet towel.
Or at least a moist one. And according to InsideEvs, putting the damp towel down over the handle of a charging stand actually works for Tesla owners.
At Tesla's own Supercharger stations, according to the media, at least two cases have been documented where a carbonized handle causes the charging of an electric car to go faster.
The trick should be especially useful on the older Superchargers. Here, there is no built-in coal element. Instead, as much as a hot cable/handle can cause the charger itself to slow down.
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But a cool towel on the handle itself should be enough. A Tesla owner reports a charge that increased from 60 kW to 90 kW. While another has experienced that it all jumped from 58 kW to 119 kW.
Cool towels and shorter charging times notwithstanding, new studies show that electric cars are not faultless either. In fact, their owners report more problems than the owners of a surprising type of car. Read more about it here.
Back at the Tesla charging stations, InsideEVs notes that the wet/damp towel trick doesn't work on the latest Superchargers. Except when charging a Tesla Cybertruck. So a car with a really big battery.
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