Author | Zhang Cuicui
Edit | Autun
Compared with the northern car owners who have a discount on driving life in winter, the warm weather in the south has made the new energy owners feel more secure and happy.
Sun Xiaoying, who lives and works in Guangzhou, is a hitchhiking driver, usually driving a BAIC EU5, with a full power endurance of about 400km, before the Spring Festival, he plans to drive back to his hometown in longyan city, Fujian Province, and then "take a job" to make a little money.
On January 26, he successfully received 4 guests and embarked on the way home with full capacity. Because to send guests, the total distance home is about 550km-600km, counting the high-speed driving endurance discount, Sun Xiaoying expects this section of the road to be charged twice.
The road conditions are better than expected, but in the charging link, Sun Xiaoying still has to "try his luck".
"AutoNavi has a new energy vehicle model, and every time you go to a service area, you will prompt several charging piles, and prompt several empty piles. But I did not expect that the charging pile in the high-speed service area is so hot now, and almost every pile in the service area has no vacancy. Sun Xiaoying can't bear to complain that there are too few charging piles in the high-speed service area, "There are almost only 4 piles in each service area, and now there are more new energy vehicles, which are definitely not enough."
When Sun Xiaoying and a car of people arrived near Huizhou, the map showed that the charging piles were not empty, fortunately, they did not queue for too long, and charged the car to 90% of the electricity in 40 minutes.
"When I was about to finish charging, I saw that there was a long queue behind me, and there were five or six cars in the longest line of each pile, and if each car had to be charged for half an hour, the last person would have to wait for 2 hours, so I was lucky."
More fortunately, during the Spring Festival, Sun Xiaoying achieved "work and home without mistakes". Counting down, the hitchhiking order earned about 1200 yuan, excluding the high-speed toll of 230 yuan and the cost of two charging 90 yuan, his net income is 880 yuan.
The following is the owner of the car, Sun Xiaoying's self-statement:
I usually work in Guangzhou as a hitchhiker, half a year ago I bought a second-hand BAIC EU5, mainly running Guangzhou to Shenzhen intercity hitchhiker, the distance is about 100 kilometers, usually business is still good, can pull full of guests to run back and forth.
It's almost the New Year, this time I plan to drive home, anyway, I am alone, there are empty seats in the car, a few days ago I released a trip order for the hitchhiker, thinking that I can pick up a few people on the way back to make a little money.
Luck was good, and not long after the release of the trip, I picked up 4 people and left a day earlier than I had planned. After communicating with everyone, I made an appointment to return on January 26 according to their itinerary.
My hometown is in the county town below Longyan City, Fujian Province, just at the junction of Guangdong Province and Fujian Province, not far away, from Guangdong Province out of the province after driving about half an hour to get home, the whole journey down 550km.
A particularly good point is that the guests picked up this time are very smooth, and their end points are in Jiaoling County under Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, which is also near the junction of Guangdong and Fujian Provinces, which is indeed very smooth. Counting the mileage of the drop-off, the actual driving down is 600km.
Because I am an operating vehicle, the use of the car is very long, urban and high-speed running, can drive about 10,000 kilometers a month. I think the apparent mileage and actual mileage of this car can almost reach 1:1 in the city, but on high speed, the mileage may be 20% off.
Overall, this car still feels good to drive, and I am personally satisfied with the endurance here. The weather in Guangdong is still relatively warm, the day of home is about 20 degrees outdoors, there will be no problem of winter endurance anxiety, driving in the south seems to have no anxiety in the north.
600km distance charging twice, "too few high-speed charging piles"
This time home is full of electricity, full of people, luggage is also full of car state, in fact, there is not much impact on the battery life. I usually run the intercity with full staff, there are few empty seats, and there are more long-distance runs, so I will not step on the "electric door" too much on the road.
I did the math, and I expected to charge twice in the middle. In the process of returning home this time, the air conditioner was turned on only at noon, and the air conditioner was not turned on in the morning and afternoon. My speed is about 100-110km/h, in the case of not turning on the air conditioner, the table display 100km can be opened to 85km, if the air conditioner is turned on, the table display 100km I can drive to about 80km, so the highway endurance will be about 20% off.
The highway we take is the Jiguang Expressway, which turns to the Changshen Expressway. Our first charge was in the high-speed service area near Huizhou charging, when the meter mileage was about 18-19%, AutoNavi has a new energy vehicle model, each service area will prompt several charging piles, and prompt several empty piles.
But I did not expect that the charging pile in the high-speed service area is so hot now, and almost every pile in the service area is empty. I would like to complain about this, now the high-speed service area charging piles are too few, we look at each service area almost only 4 piles, now there are more new energy vehicles, certainly not enough.
At that time, when we arrived near Huizhou, the map showed that there were no empty charging piles, so we could only drive over to try our luck, which happened to be a long-distance drive, and we always had to come down halfway to take a break.
The first time we went to the place to recharge, fortunately didn't wait too long, a person in front of us soon took our turn. I charged about 90% for 40 minutes, and this specific time also depends on the power of each charging pile.
Baiqi BJEV EU5 full-charge meter display mileage is about 390-400km, each charging station set to the vehicle jump gun data is different, some charged to 98%, some to 99% so.
When I was about to finish charging, there was already a long queue in the back, and there were five or six cars in the longest line of each pile, each car had to be charged for half an hour, and the last person had to wait for 2 hours, so I was lucky.
I was almost home on the second charge, and I was still a little worried about not having enough electricity, so I quickly went to a service area at the intersection of Guangdong Province and Fujian Province to charge. When I passed, the car's battery was only about 5%, but I was almost home, so I charged up to run about 100km, less than 30% I left, very quickly.
Because I also have a slow charging cable on my car, I can charge it when I go home, it doesn't matter, I can drive home.
The road conditions on the way home are quite OK, not blocked, we are from Guangdong to Fujian, in fact, Fujian people come to Guangdong to work not much, there will be more people going north, so the road I take is not particularly blocked, to Hunan, Hubei highway will be very congested.
In addition, there are no measures for epidemic control along the way, and there is no epidemic in Guangdong at present, and if there is an epidemic, it may be stricter.
The hitchhiker earned 880 yuan, and the pure tram saved nearly 4,000 yuan per month
I think it is very fortunate that this Spring Festival is a good time to go home from work. The 4 guests of the hitchhiker home this time charged an average of 300 yuan each, a total of 1200 yuan of income, minus the high-speed toll of 230 yuan and the cost of two charges of 90 yuan, calculated to earn 880 yuan, very good.
Usually I drive this car to pull a hitchhiker and save money. My car is a used car, the previous owner has been driving for more than two years, I bought it for about half a year. Running a hitchhiker, if you drive a new energy vehicle, it is very cost-effective and can save a lot of money.
I calculated an account myself, the use of new energy vehicles as long as 0.1 yuan / km, driving fuel vehicles to 0.5-0.6 yuan / km, I go back and forth every day to Guangzhou, save more than 100 yuan a day, a month to save 3000-4000 yuan.
Usually I mainly use fast charging, generally one degree of electricity 0.8 yuan, 0.9 yuan, will not go to charge during peak hours, peak hours of electricity to 1 yuan, 1.2 yuan or so.
Generally after the guests are gone, use the map to search for the nearby fast charging pile, which side is affordable I will drive to which side, the choice is fast charging, will not be slow charging, generally fast, half an hour is enough.
I also don't have a charging pile in Guangzhou, because we are all renting houses, so daily driving is to choose to charge fast at public charging stations, and we have never charged slowly.
Now back home, I was trying slow charging for the first time, and it was so slow that I was surprised.
Really want to complain about it, I used the original charging cable of BAIC, may also be the home power is not enough, I started charging at more than 9:00 last night, when the battery life was still 35km, this morning at 8:00 to see only charged to 200km, 11 hours only charged 170km, if charged from 0 to full power may take 30 hours, too slow.
At present, there is nothing wrong with driving this car, I have changed the brake pump once, I don't know if it is a normal loss, it cost more than 1,000 yuan.
At that time, when buying a car, I compared GAC Aean and BAIC, but Aeon felt that although the endurance was higher, the price was too expensive, so it was not selected, mainly considering the price.
Guangzhou-Shenzhen intercity is only more than 100 kilometers, BAIC and Eian these two cars choose which is actually not meaningful, endurance can be covered, the span is not particularly long.
During this Spring Festival, it is to visit relatives and friends, not to go to particularly far places, and to spend time with the family at home. After the Spring Festival, the first seven and eight plans to return, and I hope to return to Guangzhou with the hope of receiving orders for hitchhiking.