In 2021, "1,000 kilometers" has become a frequent "hot search" word in the new energy vehicle market and even the entire automobile market. Yes, the current mainstream pure electric vehicles, working conditions of the endurance is generally between 400-500 kilometers, 1000 kilometers of electric vehicles look too beautiful. Even if you discount 60% in the worst winter, you can achieve an endurance of 600 kilometers. Not to mention the summer, users who run less can even charge once a month. It can be said that with a range of 1,000 kilometers, say goodbye to endurance anxiety from now on. So do you really need a 1,000 km range? Will you spend a lot of money to pay for a 1,000-kilometer endurance?
At present, models that have been claimed to achieve a range of 1,000 kilometers, including THE NIO ET7, GAC AION LXPLUS and Zhiji L7, at the beginning of this article, we may wish to first understand these models.
NIO ET7
As the first pure electric car of the new power car company NIO, NIO ET7 has been unveiled and opened for pre-sale, but the actual car has not yet been delivered, which is a blind booking, and it is expected to be delivered in the first quarter of this year. In fact, NIO's plans for the ET7 model were announced early, but they were delayed for various reasons.
Although the actual car has not yet been listed, the new car was officially informed of many highlights when it was unveiled, such as the mileage of 1,000 kilometers is basically determined. At the same time, the new car is also equipped with NIO's latest autonomous driving technology NAD, and will be equipped with lidar for the first time, which can realize multi-scenario autonomous driving.
The ET7 has a range of more than 1,000 kilometers and must be equipped with a 150kWh battery pack, and this version of the model is not expected to be the main sales force. Even so, the 100kWh version of the model also has a good performance of more than 700 kilometers of endurance, at least in this regard, Weilai has given benchmark products.
GAC Aean LXPLUS
Aian LX
PLUS is the world's first new energy model with "endurance exceeding 1,000". Aeon LX PLUS has been listed at 8 p.m. on January 5, and the new car has launched a total of 4 models, priced at 286,660-45.96 million yuan after subsidies, and the mileage exceeds 1,000 kilometers.
The energy density of the Eian LX Plus cell is 205Wh/kg, and the battery capacity of the whole package can reach 144.4kWh. The use of sponge silicon anode chip battery technology, reduce the volume at the same time, the weight is also reduced by 14%, it is understood that GAC Aean LX PLUS has completed the summer test, in the case of turning on the air conditioning, the measured comprehensive road conditions endurance of 904 kilometers, mileage achievement rate of more than 90%.
Zhiji L7
Although there is no "Wei Xiaoli" with the ability of net red attributes, but by SAIC Group, Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech, Alibaba Group jointly built Zhiji Automobile, its first model L7 said that it will have a range of more than 1,000 kilometers of strength performance, of course, the current breakthrough of 1,000 kilometers of endurance models have not yet entered the mass production period, the specific mass production date has not yet been news, but because of the energy density of up to 300Wh / kg of the Ningde era of "silicon-doped lithium" technology battery, the endurance of breaking 1,000 should not be on paper.
In addition to endurance performance, Zhiji L7 is also quite a bit of attention at the level of other product strength, 12 cameras, 5 millimeter wave radar, 12 ultrasonic radar, there is such a hardware foundation as a guarantee, Zhiji L7 is currently the biggest attraction, is its advantage in intelligent assisted driving. Of course, the price of more than 400,000, many friends also said, some expensive.
Is a range of 1000 km really necessary?
With the advent of the 1000 km endurance model, everyone's discussion of 1000 km endurance has also risen and fallen, and the support voice believes that the 1000 km endurance represents an epoch-making technology, which will completely subvert the status of pure trams and fuel vehicles, and the opponents are mainly worried about the safety, charging time and convenience of large-capacity batteries.
Weima Motors
Founder Shen Hui has publicly questioned the 1,000-kilometer endurance of electric vehicles, he said: "If the current mainstream new energy models use 1,000 kilometers of batteries, it will cause a huge waste of society, we have a hard time getting rid of the dependence on oil, and everyone carries a useless battery on the road." ”
Li Bin, the founder of Weilai Automobile, has also talked about the necessity of 1,000 km endurance, and he believes that for the implementation of power exchange, 1,000 km endurance is not necessary, but Weilai Automobile needs to have the ability to carry cutting-edge battery technology. Li Bin's words are more straightforward, translated as: I can not use it, but I must have it. For the new power car companies, the reserve of cutting-edge technology is not only a better service to users, but also an encouragement to investors and a boost to the capital market.
At present, it seems that the 1000 km endurance has not really landed, the actual endurance can not be verified, and the endurance anxiety cannot be completely solved. So, at least at this stage, there is not much need to pay for it.
Full text summary:
With a range of 1,000 kilometers, can you solve the endurance anxiety? Apparently not. More important than the battery life is the charging efficiency, that is, the popularity of the charging pile and the charging speed. If charging is inconvenient, no matter how long the battery life can not solve the battery life anxiety. If charging is convenient enough, in fact, the endurance of five or six hundred kilometers is completely enough. After all, the endurance of gasoline cars is also this level. It is foreseeable that high-voltage fast charging will be the main solution to solve the charging problem in the next 1-2 years, and in the next new energy vehicle track, the car companies will compete with the speed of the layout of charging facilities.