Pain points of pure electric vehicles

Pain points of pure electric vehicles

In recent years, China's rapid development of pure electric vehicles, especially in 2021, the momentum of development is rapid, the penetration rate in October has been as high as 14%, but at the same time, the development of more and more owners also feel the pain points of the electric car, summed up, there are mainly the following five pain points!

One, expensive

Traditional fuel cars, there are engines, transmissions, fuel tanks, pure electric cars do not have the above parts, but more motors, IGBT and other electronic control systems, batteries and other parts.

The cost and price of electric motors, IGBTs and other electronic control systems for pure electric vehicles are comparable to those of engines, gearboxes and fuel tanks for fuel vehicles, but there are more expensive batteries.

Taking A-class pure electric cars as an example, the pure electric range ranges from 300-600 kilometers, and the battery capacity also ranges from 40-80 degrees, the cost of the entire battery pack, plus the gross profit of selling the car, the battery part of the contribution is about 50,000 to 100,000 yuan ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 yuan, that is to say, 50,000-100,000 yuan more expensive than the same type of fuel car, even after taking into account the subsidies, purchase tax and other factors, it is also more expensive than the same type of fuel car by 4 to 8 It's about 10,000 yuan.

Second, charging is difficult and expensive

Under ideal circumstances, such as driving in urban areas and having private charging piles at home, charging a purely electric car is not difficult, and even more convenient than refueling, and the price of electricity is also very cheap.

But the main market for pure electric vehicles is in first- and second-tier cities with limited licenses, and old neighborhoods are dotted with them. The majority of consumers who buy pure electric vehicles do not have ideal charging conditions, and cannot afford to buy ridiculously expensive new homes and underground parking spaces, so they can only rely on public charging piles for charging, which is extremely inconvenient and expensive.

As for third- and fourth-tier cities, the opposite is true: it's relatively easy to install private charging piles, and prices for housing and parking spaces aren't too expensive, so it's easy to solve the problem by buying a parking space in a new house. However, the cross-regional public **** transportation in the third and fourth tier cities is not well developed, more dependent on self-driving, once out of the city to run medium and long distances, the public charging piles are also not as ideal as those near the first and second tier cities, and replenishment of the power is more troublesome in the middle of the journey.

Three, range anxiety

If you buy a pure electric car only as a city transportation, and private charging piles, basically there will not be too much mileage anxiety, but if there is no private charging piles, the mileage anxiety will immediately highlight. Even if there are private charging piles, if you drive a pure electric car on the highway during holidays, there are many cars and few piles, and mileage anxiety will be on the agenda.

Four, the range shortening at low temperatures is obvious

Many people say that in winter, the battery of a pure electric vehicle decays severely, which is actually a misunderstanding. Battery degradation, is an irreversible process, in winter, the battery does not actually decay, just due to lower temperatures, lithium ion activity is lower, the available power drop, resulting in lower range, once the temperature recovery, the battery will also be restored, is a reversible process.

Fifth, the winter open warm air seriously affects the range

Winter open warm air, is the biggest killer of pure electric car range, especially in the city traffic jam environment, the range of 468 kilometers of the Tesla MODEL 3 can only run a few dozen kilometers (such as the owner of the above picture), in fact, is not surprising, the other models are also the same.

Pure electric vehicles, winter consumption of batteries are mainly two parts: part of the supply of the car motor drive, power consumption basically according to the mileage; part of the supply of electric air conditioning, power consumption according to the time rather than the mileage, the impact on the driving range depends on the speed of the vehicle, the lower the speed of the vehicle, the longer the same mileage of the elapsed time, electric air conditioning consumption of electricity is higher, the lower the electrical energy used for the range, the lower the overall range is also lower.

In the winter, pure electric vehicles to achieve a longer range, must be fast driving, once the traffic jam, the speed of the car is slow, even if the range of 1000 kilometers, perhaps only 200 kilometers, electric warm air, is the biggest killer of pure electric vehicle range.

Some car companies use heat pumps instead of PTC heating, because the power consumption of the heat pump is lower, can indeed slightly extend the range of pure electric vehicles in winter to a certain extent, but there are also many shortcomings.

First of all, the heat pump can't work at all in extremely low temperatures, and this situation, in fact, is also the moment when the owner needs air conditioning the most; secondly, the heat pump power bottom, slower heating, like the gap between the 1.5 pi and the 3 pi air conditioning, the cold start, the owner's feeling is far worse than the use of the PTC.

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Nowadays, more and more consumers are interested in the pure electric vehicle move, I suggest that before buying a pure electric car, be sure to understand its above five major pain points!

For some consumers, the pain points of pure electric vehicles are not terrible, and can be completely alleviated in various ways, but if you do not understand the pain points, blindly start to buy, it is likely to form a great deal of resentment, consumers, car companies, and the continued development of pure electric vehicles, are very unfavorable.

So, understanding the pain points of pure electric vehicles, analyzing the scenarios of their use of pure electric vehicles, analyzing whether they are suitable for the purchase of pure electric vehicles, and rationally purchasing them, can only be beneficial to the consumers, beneficial to the car companies, and beneficial to the sustainable development of the pure electric vehicle industry.