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CTOnews.com, August 10 (Xinhua) when friends go out, they occasionally encounter the embarrassment of "insufficient power" but forget to bring a mobile power source. Faced with this scene, some people choose to "gnash their teeth in low power mode," some people choose to "dream back to the 'simple life' of the era when there is no mobile phone," but others choose to sweep a shared portable battery to solve their urgent needs due to various needs.

However, with such a scan, I am afraid I will meet the "portable battery assassin".

According to thepaper.cn and other sources, the domestic shared portable battery price is facing a new round of "price increase". The price has risen from 1.50-2.50 yuan per hour to 4 yuan or more. The weather is hot this year, and the cost of power supply continues to rise. The cost of charging and discharging portable battery hardware has increased. Coupled with the "urgent psychology" of small-scale sharing portable battery enterprises to "survive" and large-scale sharing portable battery enterprises to financial statements, all kinds of costs are gathered together, and finally transferred to consumers.

▲ photo source thepaper.cn CTOnews.com learned after inquiry that the "monster charging" familiar to friends is charged at 4 yuan per hour and 28 yuan per 24 hours, with a cap of 99 yuan. Meituan shares portable battery, in the Shanghai area, the billing prompt is 4 yuan / 60 minutes, less than 60 minutes is charged by 60 minutes, capped every 24 hours, the total cap amount is also 99 yuan.

A "monster charging" shared portable battery in ▲ Shanghai needs 4 yuan per hour to rent. On the official website of an e-commerce platform, a 10000 Ma-hour 22.5 W mobile power supply costs 79 yuan after a discount, while another "20000 Ma-hour" mobile power supply sells for 109 yuan after a discount, which is roughly the same as the capping price of "shared portable battery".

The price of mobile power on an e-commerce official website of ▲ is roughly the same as the capping price of "shared portable battery". In addition to the dispute over the rising price, several netizens have also complained about sharing portable battery's rule that "charging for more than one minute is charged by one hour". However, CTOnews.com has tested that users can actually recover the "pay-per-hour" payment benchmark caused by more than one minute through "manual customer service", but this practice is cumbersome and quite "embarrassing" at the same time.

▲ CTOnews.com test Meituan shared portable battery test delayed return by 2 minutes, in fact, money can be refunded before, sharing portable battery consumption chaos has also been concerned by market regulators and consumer associations. Sichuan Bazhong City Market Supervision and Administration Bureau announced the consumption complaint information of key operators in the second quarter of 2023, according to screening and verification of the national 12315 platform "Bazhong City shares portable battery consumption complaint data from January to June 2023", the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau conducted an administrative interview with relevant practitioners on July 4 in response to the problems reflected by consumers, and urged them to carry out rectification within a deadline.

According to the 2023 China shared portable battery Industry Research report released by iResearch Consulting, the number of shared portable battery users in China is expected to rise from 92 million in 2017 to 755 million in 2025, with an average annual growth rate of 16.93%.

▲ Image Source iResearch Consulting

▲ Picture Source iResearch Consulting: the rapid development of mobile Internet ecology and the improvement of mobile phone power consumption have promoted the rapid expansion of the sharing portable battery industry. In restaurants, bars, dessert shops and other catering scenes, consumers' utilization rate of sharing portable battery is more than 50%, followed by KTV, cinemas and other indoor entertainment venues and merchants. Airport, railway station and other cross-city traffic scenes and scenic amusement parks and other scenes with room foreign ministers' time residence demand are also the core scenes of sharing portable battery.

Back to the current sharing portable battery industry, on the one hand, the industry currently exists "cutting leek phenomenon", on the other hand, sharing portable battery industry volume seriously forced "mutual price increase" phenomenon, and consumers' demand for fixed charging anytime, anywhere is more and more exuberant in the summer, finally, 4 yuan an hour sharing portable battery, or consumers bear.

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