China Quality News Network News (Li Mingze reporter Xu Yuanguan) December 8, 2021, Zhengzhou Meilin Riverside Motorcycle Electric Vehicle Plaza Xiaoniu Electric Vehicle Dealership.
A male chef in a yellow coat and pigtails is installing a green electric car license plate for a calf electric car that a young customer who looks like a husband and wife has just bought.
Unbeknownst to the hustle and bustle outside, the green electric plates being installed and a bunch of green electric plates on the chairs next to them are fake license plates, which is a "secret" between the Maverick dealer and the customer - the dealer clearly told that it was a fake license, and the customer gladly accepted it.
In fact, the relevant state departments have long banned the issuance of new green licenses for electric vehicles. According to the provisions of the new national standard for electric vehicles, since the implementation of the new national standard on April 15, 2019, the registration of the old national standard green brand electric vehicles has stopped. The new electric vehicle is only allowed to have three license plates - the small blue card on the electric bicycle, the big blue card on the electric moped, and the big yellow card on the electric ordinary motorcycle. The purchase of electric mopeds and electric ordinary motorcycles requires the issuance of a "Unified Invoice for the Sale of Motor Vehicles", apply for a motor vehicle license through the invoice, and obtain three different types of motor vehicle driving licenses of D, E and F.
Maverick electric vehicle Zhengzhou Meilin Riverside store is not a case of installing fake green cards, China Quality News Network investigators visited a large number of stores in Zhengzhou and found that most electric vehicle brand sellers ignore national policies and regulations, and generally install fake green cards to customers privately.
Buying a fake green card on a car is a common phenomenon
In the electric vehicle display square of the Zhongyuan International Expo Center in Zhengzhou, investigators from the China Quality News Network saw dozens of counterfeit green cards stacked on the desk of another Maverick electric vehicle dealer.
At the Emma electric car store on Longhai Middle Road, the owner took the initiative to tell the investigators of the "customer appearance" that if you buy the Emma electric car, you can enjoy the "free on-site green card" service. He quietly guided the investigators to the bar, pulled open the drawer, which was neatly lined with a large stack of green plates for electric vehicles, and then carefully closed the drawer. When investigators were seen expressing doubts about the authenticity of the green cards they said, he explained that the green cards were not entered into the traffic control system.
What's wrong with a green electric car license plate that's not entered into the system? At the small knife electric vehicle dealership on Hanghai East Road in Zhengzhou, the enthusiastic shopkeeper told the mystery: "The new green card does not enter the information of electric vehicles and car buyers into the Traffic Vehicle Management System of Zhengzhou City, that is to say, this is just an empty license plate." Electric cars without brands can't get on the road, and in order to cope with the road, you must have a brand to ride. He revealed, "As long as you don't break the law when you ride, no one cares about you or stops you, and the little green cards you ride on the road now are (this situation)." ”
"More attentive service" is that fake cards can also be selected. The knife shop owner offered a more intimate service, "After buying a car, you can pick a green number that you like."
Why do so many consumers in the electric vehicle market love the green card? It is understood that the primary reason is that the green card does not need to obtain a driver's license, and it is passed according to the non-motorized traffic regulations. Secondly, compared with the new national standard license plate, the old national standard green plate has a low illegal cost, and there are many restrictions such as whether to wear a helmet on the road and whether it can carry people. All kinds of unconditional convenience actually open the valve of unsafe driving, but consumers can not see the hidden risks in their eyes, only try to facilitate and save trouble, and prefer green cards when buying a car.
Free on-site speed limit
The new national standard for electric vehicles stipulates that the speed of electric bicycles does not exceed 25 km / h.
However, the investigators of China Quality News Network found another scene in the Zhengzhou electric vehicle market, the vast majority of brand electric vehicle dealers will take the initiative to propose to car buyers, you can lift the speed limit set by the manufacturer when the new car leaves the factory, disregard the regulations, cross the red line of 25 km / h, and provide customers with free technical services for the phenomenon of lifting the speed limit.
In the Xinri electric vehicle store on Hanghai East Road, the sales staff said that all Xinri electric bicycles in the store have 3C certification, and if they do not understand the speed limit, they can only run 25 km / h; after the speed limit is lifted for free, they can run 38 km / h, but the dial always shows 25 km / h, which meets the requirements of the new national standard for speed limits. After detailed inquiries by investigators, the seller admitted that the solvable speed limit was specially set by the manufacturer when it left the factory.
At the Tailing store on Longhai Middle Road, the owner also told investigators that if the speed limit is not solved, the speed of the Tailing electric vehicle is limited to 25 km / h, and the speed limit can be lifted to 38 km / h. He laughed and said: "There are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom." Despite running to 38 km / h, the speed displayed on the meter is still in line with the new national standard of 25 km / h. ”
At the knife dealership in the motorcycle and electric vehicle square on the Meilin Riverside, the owner said: "When the (electric vehicle) factory came out, each car was specially equipped with a decoder, and there was no decoder that could not be solved." Of course, "we generally ask the customer for advice first, and if the customer doesn't need (decode), we don't recommend him to unravel."
In the Longhai Middle Road knife electric vehicle shop, the owner said that it only takes 1 minute, the scene uses the decoder specially equipped by the electric vehicle manufacturer, connected to the electric vehicle to unlock, 10 minutes to complete all the car purchase procedures, including lifting the speed limit, licensing, issuing invoices, etc.
At the Emma Electric Vehicle Shop on Middle Longhai Road, the brand new Emma electric vehicles displayed in the store have been lifted in advance. A middle-aged male shopkeeper wearing a thin gray down jacket and glasses explained, "The speed of 25 kilometers per hour is too slow, like a bicycle, no one wants it, how to accelerate can't run, can't catch up, cyclists are in a hurry." Emma cars can be decoded, and after decoding, electric bicycles can run more than 35 kilometers per hour, and electric motorcycles can run more than 50 kilometers per hour."
He showed the investigators how to use the decoder, took out a set of black wires and connectors and a small decoder like a USB stick, and then told the investigators that the two decoders were used for decoding large-car electric motorcycles and small car electric bicycles. "These (two decoders) are specially equipped by the manufacturer, and they are plugged in the electric car and unraveled by pressing it." After solving the code, (speed) can run fast. ”
In the green energy electric vehicle store of the Electric Vehicle Hypermarket in Jingsha New Life Plaza, the sales staff demonstrated idle speed regulation on an electric vehicle that lifted the speed limit, and there are three different speed options of supercar, leisure and cross-country on the armrest of this green energy electric vehicle, among which when changing to the "supercar" gear, the speed displayed on the instrument screen is 66 km / h.
Of course, the market demand for merchants to lift the speed limit comes from consumers. Wang Wei (pseudonym) is a staff member of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, who lives near the Zhengzhou Railway Station, works in Jianshe East Road, and mainly relies on electric vehicles to commute to work every day. At work at the time or in a hurry to get to a certain place, he used to speed up. In November 2021, Wang Wei (pseudonym) bought a new electric car and immediately lifted the speed limit in the store. He told investigators that electric cars that could not be accelerated for him were unacceptable. "When you see that there is no one in front of you but you can't accelerate, when you have to pick up your children from school, you can't speed up, or one day when there is a little delay at home, you will be late or can't accelerate, and you are strictly limited to 25 yards, and you are anxious." If so, I'd rather not buy an electric car. ”
The new national standard has been implemented for more than two years, why are so many merchants still referring to the old national standard? A market source who did not want to be named pointed out that this is because different regions have different transition periods, and the new national standard is only enforced after the transition period expires, which makes some unscrupulous sellers take advantage of loopholes.
Where does the decoder "backdoor" come from?
The common phenomenon of lifting the speed limit for car buyers in the Zhengzhou electric vehicle sales market seems to be the boldness of dealers and the violation of the new national standard, but it is difficult for them to operate so easily, especially when the speed actually runs to 38 km / h, the instrument display still shows only the standard 25 km / h.
What kind of new technology does this amazing electric vehicle decoder use? Zhou Ying, deputy director of the National Light Electric Vehicle and Battery Product Quality Inspection and Testing Center, pointed out in an interview with China Quality News Network that the so-called decoding is the unlock function limitation, the electric vehicles on the market have a variety of decoding methods, there is a way to screw the electric vehicle key to the end, there is a "beep" sound to show the decoding success; there is a more hidden way to operate directly on the APP, with Bluetooth technology or other wireless technology connected to the electric vehicle; more hidden decoding method does not use APP, Communicate through the 3G or 4G chip on the electric vehicle and decode the electric vehicle directly in the background. She stressed that different manufacturers have different decoding methods, but no matter which way, it is ultimately through decoding to modify the relevant parameters of the controller.
However, no matter who decoded the speed limit, these new cars that violate the new national standard continue to drive into urban and rural roads through this "back door", bringing more safety risks to the road.