In October this year, Musk surpassed Amazon CEO Bezos with a net worth of $223 billion to become the world's richest man, mainly thanks to the booming businesses spaceX and Tesla.
Especially Tesla.
Everything related to this brand has been hot in recent years, such as musk China decontamination recently rushed to the vibrato hot search. Since the completion of the Shanghai Gigafactory in China, Tesla has finally got rid of the hell of production capacity and officially opened the road to the "peak of life" from the brink of bankruptcy.
Based on the ability and brand influence to achieve large-scale mass production, the sales of two high-end models, Model 3 and Model Y, are rising in China.
According to the data released by the Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Model Y sold 23,117 units in a single month in November 2021, making it difficult for popular high-end products such as Mercedes-Benz GRC, Audi Q5, BMW X3 and so on, in addition, Model 3 also sold 120788 vehicles from January to November this year.
Tesla's popularity is not only in the Chinese market, but also in the European market, relevant data show that in September 2021, The Model 3 topped the European new energy vehicle sales list with sales of 24591 units, and the Model Y also had 8926 sales in the same period.
However, as the saying goes: car red is not much, this sentence is particularly effective in Tesla, such as a recent video from Finland that once again let Tesla as a hot search keyword to detonate the Internet.
The video is mainly about a Finnish Model S owner who found a deserted place and used 60 pounds of explosives to blow up his car, interestingly, the blasted driver's seat in the car seems to have a "dummy Musk".
So, what exactly caused the owner to go to the point of being angry and blowing up the car? Is it rich and willful? Wrong, it is not steaming steamed steamed buns to fight for breath.
It is reported that the Finnish owner pulled his Model S with too many error codes and could not be used normally to the dealer to repair it, waited for a month, and finally was told that the Model S needed to replace the battery.
However, the problem is that this car was bought around 2012, and now it has passed the warranty period, so the 20,000 euros for replacing the battery needs to be paid by the owner himself, although the price of Tesla's products has fluctuated over the years, but the change will not be too outrageous.
A Model S in Europe is priced at about 80,000 euros, that is to say, if the owner chooses to replace the battery, the cost will reach a quarter of the price of the whole vehicle, if you really encounter this matter, it is not easy to accept anyone, although the direct explosion of the car is slightly tough, but it is not so difficult to understand.
However, the fact that foreign consumers encounter such problems does not mean that Chinese consumers can eat melons with complete joy, especially in the recent tesla sales to Europe, a considerable part of which are manufactured by its factory in Shanghai.
In addition, whether it is Tesla or not, as long as you are interested in new energy vehicles, it is necessary to understand the batteries of new energy vehicles.
For pure electric vehicles, the battery is already very expensive, after all, the cost of the power battery accounts for about 38% of the manufacturing cost of the whole vehicle, and the high cost of replacing the battery is not intentional by the manufacturer, although some companies can reduce costs based on high-quality battery technology, and can only be slightly optimized.
Nowadays, the sales of new energy vehicles are rising steadily, based on the state-mandated 8-year 15W km quality assurance policy for pure trams and the quality assurance policies of some companies to attract users, and now and even in the next few years, it will still be our "honeymoon period" with new energy vehicles.
There is a saying called "did not hit their own body do not know what is the pain", for some consumers with the "core three electricity" warranty, even if you want to replace the battery during the warranty period, it will be a little delay in using your own car, but it will not be difficult to accept.
But at the end of the warranty, the product itself has also passed the best use cycle, more or less there will be some problems, if someone's car out of the warranty period, but also need to pay for the battery, I believe more empathy for the Finnish owner's experience.
So, the cost of replacing the battery is so high, is the new energy vehicle worth buying?
First of all, the rise of new energy products is unstoppable, it is an important solution to achieve the 2060 carbon neutrality goal, so macro policies have given a lot of support to new energy vehicles, and recently it can be clearly felt that the market position of new energy vehicles is getting higher and higher.
At the same time, the younger generation of consumers also has a better acceptance of new energy vehicles. Based on such a background, the future is destined to gradually reduce the number and type of fuel vehicles available, and the number and types of new energy vehicles will be more and more.
In addition to some consumers themselves prefer pure electric products, like Beijing and other cities that have to wait for several years to buy a car, pure electric vehicles are naturally a better choice.
If you are really worried about the cost of batteries, you may wish to wait for two more years, perhaps when the battery technology of new energy vehicles will achieve a huge breakthrough so that the cost will be greatly reduced, the new energy vehicles themselves are not only pure electricity a technical line, there are also many companies to study the use of hydrogen fuel, methanol fuel new energy vehicle products.
In addition, in order to meet the needs of some consumers who do not want to bear the high cost of batteries, some companies have developed a "subscription model", the battery can be rented instead of buying, such as the RECENTLY LAUNCHED ET5 by Weilai Enterprises, which adopts this form, and the price of new cars under the "subscription model" is much lower than that of vehicles containing batteries, and it is expected that more companies will use this battery to rent and buy in the form of more competitiveness in the future.