Which are the advantages and disadvantages of fuel vehicles and electric vehicles? On this topic, there is a wave of disputes in the automotive circle almost every once in a while.
On December 20, a clip of an interview with Li Bin, the founder of Weilai Automobile, flowed out, and Li Bin said in the video: "I don't understand at all, how nostalgic is this to buy a gas car? What good is there for a gas truck other than to smell a little gasoline? ”
For this kind of high-profile diss fuel vehicle remarks, some netizens said that Li Bin is floating?
01 Weilai Automobile recent situation
This is certainly not the first time That Li Bin has made outrageous remarks. As an old cannon in the car circle, Li Bin has always been keen to preach the concept of new energy vehicles on various occasions, and his nickname of "godfather of travel" is indeed not a waste of time.
But entering 2021, Li Bin began to become somewhat "silent". Since the last time he was interviewed by the media at the Shanghai Auto Show, he has not spoken out for nearly 8 months.
With the exposure of the number of car deliveries in November, NIO Automobile ranked last in the "Wei Xiaoli" with a volume of 10878. And this is the result of their efforts to rush a wave of sales, and in October, Weilai's sales were even worse, with only 3667 units.
For Weilai, it not only has to chase after Xiaopeng Automobile and ideal car, but also has to face the death-threatening pressure of rising stars such as Nezha Automobile. The belly and back are attacked, but so it is.
From January to November this year, NIO delivered about 80,900 new vehicles, an increase of 120.4% year-on-year, but even so, they were still in the red.
According to the Q3 financial report, NIO's revenue in the third quarter was 9.805 billion yuan, an increase of 116.6% year-on-year; the net loss in the third quarter was 835 million yuan, narrowing by 20.2% compared with the same period last year and expanding by 42.3% compared with the previous quarter.
On December 18, NIO held NIO Day 2021, in which NIO officially launched its latest product ET5 model, benchmarking Tesla Model 3. The number of orders placed on the day was large, and at one point it paralyzed the Weilai App.
From 2014 to 2021, Weilai Automobile can go from its inception to the market, in fact, Internet marketing has played a great role in the popularity it has brought. And Li Bin's "bold speech" this time led to the battle of fuel vehicles and electric vehicles, but Weilai fell into a storm of negative public opinion.
Probably feeling the pressure of his own public relations, on the afternoon of December 20, Li Bin responded in the Weilai car owner group: "A few years ago, the charging and replacing infrastructure was indeed not convenient enough, and there were fewer good electric vehicles, and now the infrastructure is developing rapidly, there are many good products to choose from in various price segments, it is time to choose electric vehicles, and the sharp rise in China's electric vehicle penetration rate this year also illustrates this trend." ”
02 The Battle of Oil and Electric Vehicles
"Why do people still buy gas trucks?" The answer is actually obvious, it is precisely because the development of electric vehicles is not perfect, fuel vehicles still have a market.
In Li Bin's view, the masses do not accept electric vehicles because of "charging anxiety", which is completely excessively worried.
But Shen Hui, the owner of WM Motors, said that the user's concern is not unreasonable: "Every time I hear the owner complain to me about the difficulty of installing the charging pile, the mood is very heavy." This year, WM delivered more than 40,000 vehicles, but nearly 20,000 charging piles distributed with the car could not be delivered. ”
Although on the surface, the charging pile that was not delivered seems to save the company a lot of money, it is obviously not a good thing for the development of new energy vehicles as a whole.
Take the user feedback mentioned in Shen Hui's article as an example: after the owner picked up the car in October, he spent two months asking for help, but he could not successfully install charging piles in the community, resulting in the owner regretting buying an electric car.
The large amount of feedback in the comment area shows that the difficulty of installing charging piles is not unique.
In addition to the difficulty of charging, the endurance of electric vehicles has always been a pain for car buyers.
Even in cities with high popularity of new energy vehicles such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and the Yangtze River Delta, the number of charging piles is far from enough, and in many places, there is even a problem that charging piles are more difficult than finding parking spaces, especially in the third and fourth-tier areas.
Even in some areas, there have been cases of electric vehicle owners fighting for charging piles.
For ordinary people, buying a car for a family is not a trivial matter, and there is no way to do it as casually as changing clothes, shoes and hats. In this case, fuel vehicles with long endurance, good stability and wide application range are still the first choice.
According to data from the Ministry of Public Security, as of the end of June 2021, a total of 1.103 million new energy vehicles were newly registered, an increase of 774,000 units over the same period last year. Even with this intensity of growth, new energy vehicles account for only 13.9% of the total market share in the entire automotive sector.
Compared with the already relatively mature fuel vehicles, new energy electric vehicles are still in an unstable stage of development. If new energy vehicles want to completely replace fuel vehicles, in addition to looking forward to the promotion of external forces such as policies, they must also improve their functions, and it is not enough to achieve the same performance, but also need to go further on the basis of covering fuel vehicles.
Until the streets of the country are paved with charging piles, the market for fuel vehicles will still exist.
03 Conclusion
Combined with the advent of Weilai Automobile's new product ET5, it is difficult not to think about whether Li Bin's words of provoking "oil and electricity confrontation" are deliberately for marketing hype, after all, Li Bin is a car media person, what kind of repercussions will be generated for his own words, if he says that he has no number in his heart, the list sister does not believe it. However, he probably did not expect the market to be so disgusted by his remarks.
As of today's U.S. stock close, Nio's stock price fell by 6.13%.
Mr. Li's wave of speculation is somewhat costly.