With the advent of the cold wave, the mileage of new energy vehicles under low temperature has "shrunk" and "mileage anxiety" has been enlarged again. The problem of charging difficulties has become a headache for many car owners.
Recently, a reporter from China Business Daily found in the process of visiting and investigating that in a large six-story parking lot in Beijing's East Fourth Ring Road, only the fourth floor has 33 charging spaces. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, there are still more than a dozen new energy vehicles waiting in line to charge, and even stretch the queue to the second floor.
Some car owners told reporters, "Winter cars lose power fast, sometimes need to charge twice a day, many charging stations are set in the parking lot, pay the charging fee at the same time also need to pay a high price of parking fees, and the charging station in this parking lot within two hours parking and charging free, so there will often be no idle charging piles, you need to wait in a long line." ”
After that, the reporter visited two or three communities near the charging station, although there are many new energy vehicles parked in the community, but no charging equipment such as charging piles has been set up. Some property personnel told reporters that the voltage in this area is limited and cannot be expanded, and if the cost of expansion is too high, it is naturally impossible to install charging piles.
According to CCTV financial reports, in the Beijing area where the charging infrastructure is relatively perfect, there are even new energy car owners who get up at 4 a.m. to grab public charging piles to charge new energy vehicles. Behind the new energy vehicle owners grabbing the public charging pile is the discussion on the energy supply method of new energy vehicles triggered by the topic of "how to solve the problem of charging new energy vehicles".
Qi Haiyan, president of Beijing Teyi Sunshine New Energy, told reporters that from the perspective of charging infrastructure facilities, it has improved a lot in recent years, but there are still many ways to go, such as: the convenience of charging and replacing, the application of fast charging technology, the problem of charging interface matching, mobile charging services and a series of services to be rapidly improved and improved to adapt to the rapid increase in the number of new energy vehicles.
Charging difficulty: the charging sign is not clear The parking fee is higher than the charging fee
The above-mentioned car owner told reporters, "It is not easy to charge a battery, there are three communities around, but there are only six charging piles, and they are often occupied by oil trucks, so each charge can only lead a long line." I have never seen the relevant staff to manage the charging slot. Although the experience of new energy vehicles is good, the penetration rate of charging piles is still not enough, there are more fast charging ports on the market, but there are few slow charging ports, which is not friendly for hybrid vehicles. ”
The reporter saw on the major charging pile APP that although there are many charging piles nearby, almost all of them are facing a state of full load. At the same time, many charging stations have restrictions, such as the Old Palace Viaduct is not open to the public during the period from 8:30 to 15:30, while the residential areas and companies such as Xinkang Homestead and Hongan International Business Building are completely closed to the public. In addition, there are many charging piles that cannot be used, such as electric vehicle charging areas located in Liuzhou Building, Wufangqiao Auto Trade Park and other places that are under maintenance, and many charging piles are located in the parking lot, and parking fees with different prices are also charged.
A car owner surnamed Xu told reporters that he had taken many detours in order to find charging positions. "Some charging piles are in the underground parking lot of the mall or community, and there is no obvious identification, and it is not accurate to follow the charging map on the mobile phone, and sometimes even if you find it, it may be a charging pile that has been damaged."
"Parking fees in many urban core areas are more expensive, and sometimes the parking cost is much higher than the charging cost, for example, the parking fee for an hour may cost 20 to 30 yuan, and the recharge may be nearly 100 yuan." In addition, public charging piles need 2 yuan at one time during peak periods, while charging at home is only 0.3 yuan. In contrast, it is more convenient and economical to have a private charging pile. Some car owners said.
However, many car owners said that it is difficult to charge public charging piles, and it is even more difficult to install private charging piles in their own communities. "In first-tier cities, the installation of charging piles must first have parking spaces, and it is difficult for a group of people to have their own property parking spaces in old communities or urban areas." Secondly, after having a parking space, it is not easy to convince the residential property to install charging piles. One car owner said.
Difficulty in building piles: the property power is overloaded, and the pile enterprises are not profitable
The problem of charging difficulties is investigated, which is due to the huge gap between supply and demand caused by the overall shortage of domestic charging infrastructure, and the layout speed of charging piles cannot keep up with the development speed of the new energy vehicle market.
The data shows that in the first three quarters of 2021, the number of new energy vehicles in China reached 6.78 million, and the sales of new energy vehicles in 2021 exceeded 3 million. In contrast, the cumulative number of charging infrastructure in the country is 2.385 million units, and the increase in charging infrastructure in the country is 704,000 units. The ratio of vehicle piles is roughly 3:1, and the increase in the number of charging piles is far from catching up with the number of electric vehicles.
However, the construction of charging piles is not achieved overnight, and whether it can be landed or not requires the joint efforts of all parties. Zhang Xiaorong, president of the DeepIn Science and Technology Research Institute, told reporters that the charging pile industry is now in its infancy, and the addressing layout of charging piles is a key issue. The installation and maintenance of charging piles in an area is complex, requiring joint collaboration between the government, power grids, properties, charging pile operators and other fields.
Auto analyst Zhang Xiang told reporters that some of the old residential areas that have been built for many years have not taken into account the charging difficulties caused by the large-scale development of new energy vehicles in the future due to early planning. If you want to access high-power electrical appliances now, it will lead to the overall overload of the community, the voltage will be unstable, and it is easy to lead to tripping and even safety accidents. Car analyst Lin Xi told reporters that in recent years, there have been several incidents of spontaneous combustion of electric vehicles in the garage, so many residents in the vicinity will obstruct the owners of trams from installing charging piles, and the enthusiasm of the property is not high due to unprofitable, which leads to difficulties in applying for owners with demand.
The reporter found in the investigation that many car owners need to fill in various forms in the process of applying for charging piles, and also need to pay different levels of expansion and installation costs. Another car owner told reporters that the company's park has installed a third-party charging pile, but because the property and the company's question of who pays the electricity bill has not been agreed, the charging pile has been idle for many months.
In fact, at present, the third-party charging pile operators are generally not highly motivated, and many companies are still in the whirlpool of losses. The boss of the charging pile said that the operating costs are high, the rental cost and labor cost account for a large proportion, and the profit of the operation for many years is minimal. The staff of the replacement power station told reporters, "At present, only a few sites in a few areas are profitable, and most of the other sites are in the loss stage, because it takes millions of yuan to build a site, and it is difficult to return the cost by relying only on the cost of replacing electricity." ”
The industry generally believes that due to the high initial investment, low utilization rate and long profit cycle, the charging pile market is still unable to form a benign operation. Zhang Xiaorong told reporters that the commercial operation of the charging industry is still being explored, due to the contradiction of long charging time and low charging income of vehicles, the business model has not been successful, and it is currently impossible to solve it. At the same time, capital has not really entered the charging industry, and the previous advance funds have entered mainly based on the guidance of policy dividends. It is difficult to improve until the problem of fast charging technology is solved.
Solve the problem: self-use charging pile sharing, car companies and housing enterprises to deepen cooperation
In order to solve the problem of charging, all parties in society are strengthening their actions to effectively alleviate the anxiety of new energy vehicle owners.
In recent years, including the "14th Five-Year Plan" new infrastructure construction plan, "carbon peak action plan before 2030", "energy conservation and new energy vehicle industry development plan (2012-2020)", "notice on accelerating the construction of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in residential areas" and other central documents, there are also plans for the development of charging piles. At the local policy level, the "14th Five-Year Plan" of more than 20 provinces and cities has proposed the layout of the charging pile industry.
Specific to various localities, many provinces and cities have launched solutions that meet the actual needs of the localities according to local conditions: for example, Sichuan Electric Power adopts the "unified construction and unified operation", after the owners of the community reach a consensus, the power company uniformly builds and operates the community charging network, and realizes orderly charging through the charging pile with adjustable power to improve efficiency; Xiamen, Fujian Province, opens up the whole process of pile construction through the form of "network communication office", and the power department processes the application submitted by the car owner, coordinates the work of all parties to help the home charging pile land, It reduces the resistance of car owners in the process of applying for piles. Recently, the Beijing Municipal Urban Management Committee drafted the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction and Management of Electric Vehicle Charging Facilities in Residential Areas", which mentioned that it is necessary to encourage the sharing and utilization of self-use charging piles, which provides new ideas to solve the problem.
Many car companies are also accelerating the construction of charging piles and providing technical support to alleviate range anxiety, such as the development of brake energy recovery systems, improving battery energy density and adopting super fast charging, battery charging methods with multiple power exchange modes to replenish new energy vehicles, in addition to wireless charging, car exclusive mobile charging treasure and other emerging new ways have also become a breakthrough to alleviate charging problems.
For how to solve the problem of charging difficulties, Zhang Xiang told reporters, "First of all, if the government department can take the lead in promoting the establishment of a unified platform to interconnect the information of charging piles, it will be more convenient for users to find piles." Secondly, the state should introduce policies to reduce the operating costs of charging piles and cancel parking fees when charging. At the same time, various management measures should be adopted to avoid the occurrence of oil truck occupancy and other behaviors, and improve the utilization rate of charging piles. Finally, car companies can deepen cooperation with housing enterprises, and housing enterprises can combine their own real estate and property advantages to concentrate on the layout of public charging piles; and as the owners of the housing enterprises, the installation of household charging piles will also be convenient, which can effectively solve the problem of private charging pile installation of users. ”
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