Bug in Tesla's Supercharger Software Creates $600,000 Invoice

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

In an article shared by Electrek, a Tesla Model 3 owner in China was charged more than 600,000 US dollars after a small charge at a Tesla Supercharger station, an error that was mostly due to a bug in the software of the same. In addition to this large bill, the bug also led to the customer being banned from Supercharging after charging his vehicle for 20 minutes. The American company has already admitted that this problem was in fact due to a softwareand that a fix is already underway.

The customer in question had over 2,000 free charging miles, which all ended up being used in his last charging session. Since it is not possible to use that much energy in such a short time, the problem in question would be related to the billing calculation. In that sense, since payment was not being made, and the user was banned, the system ended up accruing the inactivity fees rather quickly, thus leading to the amount of over $600,000.