When it comes to the topic of global auto companies, Tesla ranks second, and no one dares to say first.
Just after the New Year, Tesla released several heavyweight news in succession, which ignited the network traffic again. In addition to the impressive sales performance at home and abroad, and the latest prices of Tesla S3XY models announced in the Chinese Mainland market, a social news in California, the United States, has also attracted worldwide attention.
Recently, a "Tesla fell off a cliff" accident occurred in California, the car owner drove Model Y and his family out of the highway guardrail and rolled down a cliff with a height of 80 meters, equivalent to 20 floors high. Surprisingly, in such a major accident, Model Y's skeleton was complete and all four members of the family survived.
This cliff fall accident made the outside world pay more attention to the safety of Tesla - how safe is Tesla? Which segment does it belong to in the car brand? Let's talk about the third quarter safety report released by Tesla on January 8.
At present, the "Tesla Vehicle Safety Report" can be seen on Tesla's overseas official website. It begins with the consistent Tesla style: "We believe that technology can improve safety, so Tesla is designed to be the safest car in the world."
The data content shows that there is a risk of one traffic accident for every 6.26 million miles (about 10 million kilometers) in Tesla's driving activities using Autopilot; There is a risk of one traffic accident for every 1.71 million miles (about 2.75 million kilometers) of driving without Autopilot and active safety function.
By comparison, the data released by the National Highway Traffic Safety AdMINIstration (NHTSA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that there is one traffic accident every 652000 miles (about 1.05 million kilometers) in the United States.
In other worDS, Tesla Autopilot has made the driving safety reach 9.6 times of the average level in the United States, effectively improving the driving safety level of passengers.
Based on this, we can draw several conclusions:
1. Based on the improvement of active safety, the accident probability of Tesla is far less than that of other vehicles, which is safer than that of fuel vehicles.
Tesla's standard Autopilot automatic driving assistance system achieves a 360-degree view that can be monitored in real time, enabling the vehicle to have the ability to predict risks, predict in advance and other decision-making capabilities, so that Tesla continues to lead in the field of active safety that most fuel vehicles do not have. Tesla OTA can also continue to improve safety to ensure that every car owner can get updated and more complete safety functions at the first time. Under the trust of car owners voting with "money", Tesla proved with its solid sales performance that electric vehicles are safer than fuel vehicles, and intelligent driving is more reliable than human driving.
2. Tesla has become a "top student" in the passive safety field of fuel vehicles.
Back to the California cliff fall accident, although the motive of the accident is not yet clear, and there is a saying that the car owner deliberately murdered, regardless of the car owner's purpose, Model Y has used its hard power to protect the life of the whole family. This is due to Tesla's excellent body structure design, the selection of body materials regardless of cost, and the integrated die-casting process brought by a large amount of research and development investment. You should know that Tesla's full range of models have obtained the top safety certification in more than 20 authoritative evaluation institutions around the world, and the Model 3 and Model Y of the "Five Star Safety Grand Slam" have proved with authoritative certification time after time that electric vehicles are safer than fuel vehicles, and Tesla is the absolute top student in the electric vehicle industry.
3. Tesla also pays attention to battery protection, and its fire probability is 1/11 of that of ordinary vehicles.
Tesla also ensures battery safety through body structure, battery system design and other forms.
The data shows that the ignition rate of pure electric vehicles is much lower than that of traditional electric vehicles. According to the results of the American website AutoinsuranceEZ, in 2021, there were only 52 electric vehicle fires in the United States, while 16000 for hybrid vehicles and 199000 for fuel vehicles. Sun Fengchun, an academician of the CAE Member, also pointed out that "the fire probability of China's new energy vehicles in 2019 is about 0.49 per 10000, and that in 2020 is 0.26 per 10000, which is much lower than that of fuel vehicles from 1 to 2 per 10000."
Tesla vehicle fire data also verified this point. From 2012 to 2021, Tesla will drive about 338 million kilometers, with only one risk of fire accident; In contrast, data from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the United States Department of Transportation show that every 30 million kilometers of vehicles in the United States, one car fires. The fire probability of Tesla is 1/11 of that of ordinary vehicles.
4. Tesla's safety technology and brand achievements are in great contrast to the public opinion environment it is currently facing. Tesla continues to consolidate its product strength and firmly believes that good products can speak for themselves.
Tesla, with "0 advertising", does not spend energy on "research" peers, and continues to consolidate technology and production. Whether it is safety report or delivery performance, Tesla has proved that "good products speak for themselves" with solid data. Tesla has achieved the industry leader in all aspects in terms of performance, intelligence, or the "five-star safety" certification of all models.
Behind Tesla's continuous improvement in safety, it is also using various forms to let more consumers have a lower threshold and more opportunities to enjoy the solid product power of electric vehicles. Not long ago, the price adjustment of Tesla in Chinese Mainland was that Tesla was subverting the industry in a more practical and direct way to benefit consumers. Behind each price adjustment, Tesla's engineering innovation and cost control processes are covered, including but not limited to vehicle integration design, production line design, supply chain management, and even optimization of robot arm collaboration routes in milliseconds.
As we all know, Tesla has no advertising, and has put more than 95% of its energy into key areas such as technological innovation, production and manufacturing, after-sales service, infrastructure construction, etc., instead of wasting a little resources on unnecessary things. Under this concept, Tesla can achieve continuous improvement in safety.
The price is adjusting and the technology is upgrading, but Tesla is still the same as Tesla, which has the hard-core technology and is vigorous. In this way, it has torn down the industry's veil for countless times, and is also loved and hated by industry people. Fortunately, it has always adhered to its original intention, focused on technology, led the industry and created a better pure electric life.
