The Spring Festival is coming, and self-driving has become an important mode of transportation to return home. On January 28, the "Spring Festival Homecoming Report of the Year of the Tiger" released by the automotive vertical media platform showed that about 23% of people had to cross thousands of kilometers to return home.
Among them, the report also conducted a survey on the attitude of users to self-driving new energy vehicles to return home, and nearly 62% of respondents said that they would not give priority to new energy vehicles. Among them, battery life and charging are the biggest concerns of long-distance self-driving new energy, and 74% of users hope to charge no more than 30 minutes in the middle.
Previously, Nandu reporters visited some high-speed in Guangdong and learned that the number of charging piles is still in the stage of rapid growth, and the number of charging piles on weekdays is also relatively sufficient, but during the peak period of holidays, there is still a relatively obvious imbalance between supply and demand.
More than two adults come home spanning thousands of kilometers
According to the "Spring Festival Return Report of the Year of the Tiger" released by the Emperor of the Car, 80% of the riders choose to drive themselves on the means of transportation, and their spouses and children are the main force of their peers, and the post-80s have become the most crowd of people who choose to return home together with the three generations of "old, middle and young".
In terms of the distance to return home, about 30% of users travel within 200 kilometers, but 23% of people have to cross thousands of kilometers to return home. Among them, Shandong, Henan, Guangdong, Hunan and other provinces have become the most popular destinations. When choosing a means of transportation, 83% of riders will drive themselves back to their hometowns, and Volkswagen, Geely, Toyota, and Changan are the most used car brands.
At the node of returning home, the week before the Chinese New Year's Eve and after the start of the Spring Festival, the largest number of people returning to their hometowns, and there was also a wave of small peaks in the 3-6 days before the Chinese New Year's Eve.
At the time node of returning home, many respondents chose to return home after the holiday.
Self-driving travel, but also convenient for people to carry special products, etc., "go home with wine and leave the country with meat" is the choice of many people. Judging from the data, what users take away from home is also very regional. For example, Hunan users choose more bacon and hot sauce, Shaanxi users prefer persimmon cakes and Zhen cakes, Yunnan people love to bring rice dumplings, ham, etc., and Shandong people prefer to bring all kinds of vegetables and large dumplings.
More than 60% of respondents do not consider driving new energy home during the Spring Festival
According to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the production and sales of new energy vehicles in 2021 will reach 3.545 million units and 3.521 million units respectively, with sales increasing by 157.5% year-on-year, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology expects that the sales of new energy vehicles will reach 5 million units in 2022.
Driving new energy vehicles, especially pure electric vehicles, to return home has become a new trend, but during last year's National Day Golden Week, the pictures of new energy car owners competing for charging piles on the highway are impressive.
The report also investigates the attitude of users to return home by driving new energy. The data shows that due to the low temperature environment and long-distance driving often faced by the Spring Festival homecoming, out of concern for battery life and charging, many users are cautious about new energy, and nearly 62% of respondents said that they would not consider this way of returning home. Judging from the mileage trusted by users, 67% of respondents said that the actual cruising range of more than 600 kilometers will give priority to new energy. However, although the calibration endurance of many new cars has reached 600 kilometers or even higher, it is affected by high-speed driving, temperature, road conditions, etc., and long-distance travel endurance is inevitably "discounted".
Most of the respondents believe that the new energy vehicle has a range of more than 600 kilometers, so that they are more assured of driving back to their hometowns.
Charging a long-distance self-driving new energy vehicle is a problem that must be considered. The report shows that nearly 95% of users believe that charging must be solved within 1 hour. Among them, 41% of users hope that the charging problem should be solved in 15-30 minutes, and 33% of users believe that the halfway charging should be completed within 15 minutes.
A few days ago, Nandu reporters also visited some of the provincial highway service areas to observe the use of charging piles, in the off-peak period, the use rate of charging piles is about 50%, but many respondents are equally worried about the peak of holidays Charging queues. In addition, from the perspective of the visit, driving an electric vehicle to travel, for the planning of the route is particularly important, drivers should pay attention to the layout of the highway service area, be vigilant against missing charging piles, service areas are not open, etc., to avoid charging when the power will be exhausted.
Nandu reporter Zhong Jianting