Tesla Supercharger Software Bug Creates 600 Thousand Dollar Bill

With rising fuel prices, Tesla Inc's electric cars have proved more attractive than ever, yet one customer was charged more than half a million dollars for only charging his vehicle at a station Tesla Supercharger.

In an article shared by ElectrekA Tesla Model 3 owner in China has been charged more than 600,000 US dollars after a small charge at a station. Tesla Superchargera mistake that was mainly due to a bug in software of the same. In addition to this hefty bill, the bug also led to the client being banned from the Superchargingafter charging his vehicle for 20 minutes. The US company has already admitted that the problem was in fact due to an error on its part. softwareand that a correction is already underway.

The customer in question had more than 2,000 free charging miles, all of which ended up being used in his last charging session. Since it's not possible to use so much energy in such a short space of time, the problem in question was related to the billing calculation. In this sense, as payment was not being made, and the user was banned, the system ended up accumulating inactivity fees quite quickly, leading to the sum of more than 600 thousand dollars.