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Tesla warns against wet towel charging trick two months too late


Tesla's Charging PR team (or the lack thereof) had to issue a warning to its customers not to do the "wet towel" trick.

One, known as the “wet towel” trick, required the Tesla Charging department — or whatever remains of it — to publicly tell customers to knock it off. The “wet towel” trick involves wrapping a damp, cool cloth around a Supercharger cable handle as a way to presumably speed up the charging time. Some Tesla owners believe that cooling down the charging handle will trick the temperature monitor into topping off their vehicles faster.

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