Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Some people say that this round of power cuts in Sichuan and Chongqing is tantamount to opening the scars of pure electric car owners.

Under the high temperature, it is really difficult for local pure electric car owners to wait in line to recharge. It is reported that the service of some public charging stations has been suspended due to power cuts, causing pure electric vehicle owners to queue up outside other charging stations and go through a long wait.

Some car owners complain online that pure electric cars cannot be recharged and that the remaining range of a few hundred kilometers can only be saved for a few days. From an online entry note of Tesla's overcharging station, you can see that recently, sites in Chongqing have been prompted to be "temporarily closed" or "service is limited."

The sudden high temperature and extreme weather and power restriction measures have made the problem of "difficult charging" of pure electric vehicles once again become the focus of public opinion. Many pure electric car owners who are tired of queuing and grabbing piles to recharge can not help but look admiringly at the mixed car users who do not have "charging anxiety" around them.

In the context of license plate restrictions and regional power restrictions in big cities, plug-in hybrid vehicles (Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, referred to as PHEV), which were originally regarded as "transitional products", seem to have ushered in a highlight moment.

No wonder some industry insiders say: the dispute over who is the "future" between pure electricity and pure electricity seems to last for a long time.

"01" car owners are not worried about the difficulty of charging? "I'm a little glad I bought a plug-in car instead of a pure electric car."

Mr. Yang, a self-employed businessman who lives in Jinniu District of Chengdu, opens nearly 40 kilometers between his home and Pixian (Pidu District) every day. In order to facilitate commuting, he bought a new energy car that can go straight to the "green card" a year ago.

Mr. Yang admitted that he had planned to buy pure electric cars at first because of cheap charging and low commuting costs, but because the parking lot near his home had public charging posts and often drove with his family on weekends, so he finally chose a plug-in car.

"the mileage of pure electricity is only 50 kilometers, but it is enough to go back and forth between home and store if it is recharged every day." However, under extremely high temperatures, power was cut off in some parts of the city, and almost all the AC stakes in the parking lot near Mr. Yang's home were cut off.

A warm-hearted neighbor told him that if he was lucky, the charging pile could be recharged for a while in the wee hours of the morning, "but I am mixed up, but I am not bothered to bother with electricity, so I should give up my precious charging resources to pure electric car owners."

As a result, in the last week, he basically burns oil (that is, hybrid mode) to commute. Mr. Yang joked that if he had bought a pure electric car, he would have made friends with many "victims" who drove electric cars recently in order to grab piles and line up to recharge.

As one netizen said: charge for five minutes and socialize for two hours. Whenever he passed the charging station on Shuxi Road and saw a large number of car owners waiting in line to recharge under the high temperature, he was always filled with rejoicing.

"many friends who have bought plug-in cars are really grateful that they have been spared the torment of waiting in line to recharge in high temperature recently." Mr. Yang said frankly that it is precisely because of the "fuel and electricity" characteristics of plug-in cars that many friends who do not have the charging conditions have chosen to buy plug-in cars in order to get a "green card".

Some car owners even use the plug-in car as an ordinary fuel vehicle since they bought the car, refueling all the time and never charging it.

In addition, compared with pure electric cars, mixed cars that can refuel naturally have a little less anxiety about driving, which is what he is most satisfied with at present.

At present, the actual mileage of most pure electric vehicles is only 400 to 500 kilometers, and car owners usually start looking for charging stations when the electricity is usually less than 20%. But even with DC fast charging, it takes half an hour to charge up to 80%, which is quite time-consuming.

Mr. Yang said that most plug-in cars full of gas and electricity usually have a mileage of thousands of kilometers, and even if the electricity runs out and the gas runs out, gas stations everywhere can fill up a tank in only five minutes, so that the plug-in cars can be quickly "full of blood."

"on holidays and weekends, when I drive long distances, I usually only refuel the car without recharging it. It's good." In Mr. Yang's view, the plug-in car that can recharge and refuel is no different from the fuel car in the actual car experience, and is more worry-free than pure electricity.

Of course, this is only the personal opinion of a car owner. At present, the domestic new energy vehicle market is still dominated by pure electricity, which shows what?

According to data from the Transportation Administration of the Ministry of Public Security, by the end of June this year, the number of new energy vehicles in the country had reached 10.01 million, of which pure electric vehicles accounted for 80.93%. According to the analysis of people in the industry, the number of pure electric cars is large, or it is because of the inherent concepts of consumers.

Many car owners believe that the cost of running electric vehicles is definitely lower than that of fuel-burning hybrid models. However, under the power shortage, similar concepts are gradually changing.

Can the "02" mix strike a balance between efficiency and cost? So, is it really easy to plug in a mixed car and save money?

Some people say that the point of buying a plug-in is that buying an ordinary fuel vehicle and a new energy license at a slightly higher price than a fuel car is a temporary product of the "transition period" of the auto industry's transformation.

The so-called plug-in technology means that cars can use less oil as much as possible and use oil more efficiently with the help of efficient electric energy. Therefore, under the working conditions of fuel consumption and low fuel efficiency, such as starting, medium and low speed, rapid acceleration and so on, the plug-in models all rely on the motor to generate power.

"at present, with the blessing of new technology, many compact PHEV models can achieve fuel consumption of 4 liters under power deficit conditions, and PHEV SUV can achieve fuel consumption of 100 kilometers and 5 liters, which is even lower than that of Japanese cars that focus on energy conservation." Li Ren, an automobile power engineer, gave such a set of data.

He believes that at present, many mixed-in models claim that under specific operating conditions, the fuel consumption of 100 kilometers is only 4 or 5 liters, but this does not mean that car owners can reach the official level of fuel consumption if they step on or drive casually. "if you often run at high speed at a loss of electricity, the fuel consumption of plug-in cars is not low."

Li Ren pointed out: most of the mainstream plug-in technology, in high-speed conditions, are directly driven by the engine. Therefore, compared with the traditional fuel vehicles of the same class, there is no obvious gap between the high-speed fuel consumption of plug-in vehicles and the traditional fuel vehicles of the same class. Only the frequent use of electricity and stop-and-go urban road conditions will appear to save fuel.

In his view, many mainframe factories invest a lot of energy in the research and development of multi-speed (transmission) plug-in system, in order to optimize high-speed working conditions, engine direct drive efficiency performance, reduce high-speed fuel consumption, and improve the overall fuel economy.

If the slight influence caused by the difference between maintenance fee and insurance premium is ignored, calculated only in terms of fuel cost and electricity cost, the unit price of full fuel mileage and deficit mileage is about 0.2 yuan / km and 0.35 yuan / km, respectively, and the unit price of high-speed mileage is equivalent to that of fuel vehicles.

It can be seen that no matter how to drive a mixed car, it is much higher than a pure electric model that always uses public fast charging and costs only more than 10 cents per kilometer.

Of course, when consumers calculate this "economic account" when buying a car, it is not just the cost of using the car, and the price of pure electric cars is usually higher than that of the same class plug-in cars.

"with the same brand and compact grade SUV, pure electric models are 30,000 more expensive than plug-in models." Li Ren said that the higher the price and grade of the car, the greater the price difference between pure electricity and plug-in. "at the same level, for more than 300,000 models, pure electricity is 70,000 or 80,000 more expensive than plug-in."

As for the reason, he thinks it is obvious: as the bulk of the cost of new energy vehicles, the power battery pack of pure electric vehicles is undoubtedly much more expensive than the battery pack mixed with several kilowatt-hours and ten kilowatt-hours of electricity.

Even if the mixed model only burns fuel and does not recharge, the car cost that consumers pay less when buying a car is enough to catch up with the pure electric car running more than 100,000 kilometers, which can save the cost of using the car. Thus it can be seen that the pursuit of extreme fuel-saving mixing gradually achieves a balance between efficiency and economy.

As for "one train with electricity, one worm without power" and "one more system with a higher failure rate", the inherent impression left by the early mixed car to the market has been thoroughly thrown into the old almanac with the development of technology.

At present, pure electric vehicles account for about 80% of the domestic new energy vehicle market, and pure electricity is still the technical route of the "mainstream" of new energy, but in the past year or two, the terminal sales of mixed models have also been rising.

"before, the company's new energy technology route was purely electrified and did not like to be mixed up." Zhou Hui (pseudonym), a marketing specialist for a large domestic mainframe factory, said that the threshold for the manufacture of early electric vehicles was low, so many domestic mainframe factories converted to new energy vehicles and preferred the pure electric route of "zero foundation".

Coupled with the limitations of the technical level, there are serious setbacks, lack of power, and high fuel consumption of plug-in cars on the market at the beginning, resulting in lower sales of plug-in models than pure electric vehicles that are cheap to charge and as smooth as silk. Most car companies naturally begin to "prefer" pure electricity.

"after all, car companies advertise that pure electric cars cost only a few cents per kilometer and can also get a green card, so users who commute to and from work in the main car scene will buy a plug-in for a long-term flight." Zhou Hui stressed that with the continuous increase in the number of new energy vehicles, the problem of "difficult to charge" is becoming increasingly prominent.

Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that in the first half of 2022, domestic production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 266.1 million and 2.6 million respectively, an increase of 1.2 times over the same period last year, with a record high production and sales scale and a market penetration of 21.6%.

According to data from the China charging Alliance, as of June this year, 1.528 million public charging piles had been built nationwide, an increase of 65.5 percent over the same period last year, with an increase of 381000 units. The speed of the construction of public charging infrastructure can not catch up with the development of new energy vehicles.

"the difficulty of charging makes many car owners regret buying electric cars, and some people sell pure electricity for plug-in." Zhou Hui said that the trend of a large number of stock users and incremental car owners turning from "pure electric camp" to "mixed camp" is also reflected in the sales volume of mixed models.

Statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers show that in the first half of 2022, the production and sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles in China totaled 551000 and 536000 respectively, an increase of 1.9 times and 1.7 times respectively.

Because of this, the mixed model, which was once regarded as the product of the "transition period" of new energy vehicles, is being favored by users.

In the face of the growing consumer demand, many domestic car companies can no longer sit still, and they all want to get a piece of the pie in the field of interruption that they once did not value or attach importance to.

At present, in addition to BYD, which has been "cutting edge" in technology, Great Wall, Chery, Geely and Wuling all have plans or have launched plug-in models based on multi-gear transmission (DHT). There is also a clear distinction between the views of industry insiders: one is that interruption has great market potential in the next decade; the other is that it will soon become obsolete and obsolete.

[conclusion] it is undeniable that the mixed model, which has been controversial in the process of "decarbonization", will be a "transitional" product in the development process of new energy vehicles. However, before the domestic new energy charging facilities are fully popularized and the charging problem is solved, the plug-in will still be "transitional" for a period of time, or even a "long period of time".

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