Tesla warns in opposition to moist towel charging trick two months too insensible

Tesla automobile culture is stuffed with hacks and shortcuts, some extra perfect than others. One, is named the “moist towel” trick, required the Tesla Charging division — or with out reference to remains of it — to publicly yell customers to knock it off.

The “moist towel” trick involves wrapping a damp, icy cloth spherical a Supercharger cable tackle as a technique to presumably trot up the charging time. The Supercharger has temperature displays that abet it from overheating because it costs Tesla vehicles. Some Tesla homeowners imagine that cooling down the charging tackle will trick the temperature video display into topping off their vehicles sooner.

Right here’s the remark, no lower than in Tesla’s telling: If the sensor in the charging tackle believes that the temperature is lower than it if truth be told is whereas it’s charging, the towel-wrapped charger would possibly presumably perchance well make a “possibility of overheating or grief” in accordance with the firm.

This would presumably perchance also just sound treasure the very best “duh” assertion in tech news history nonetheless it’s taken bigger than two months for Tesla to warn its customers now to not form the “moist towel” trick on their autos, even after it grew to change into a properly known “hack” on other auto news internet sites and Reddit boards. The official Tesla Charging fable on X posted a warning on Wednesday in accordance with an editorial from InsideEVs.com explaining the unhealthy automobile charging trick.

This roughly account dialog breakdown is what occurs when a first-rate automaker doesn’t bear a public family division. Tesla dissolved its total PR crew in 2020 and Elon Musk publicly refused to rent one on his X fable the following year asserting he didn’t are attempting to “invest in promoting & manipulating public belief,” in accordance with Electrek.