"You're a tram?" Is the battery life virtual? What if there is no power on the highway? ”
This is a sentence that a friend left me before driving an electric car home this year, I heard that I drove home for the New Year, he refunded the high-speed rail ticket and decided to blow water back with me. But when he saw my borrowed Xiaopeng P5 in the parking lot, he showed a certain anxiety. It can also be understood, after all, the name of "electric daddy" has long been thunderous on the Internet.
In order to dispel his fear of running out of power on the highway to push the car concerns, I patiently said: This Xiaopeng P5 NEDC mileage is as high as 600km, and the total mileage of our home is less than 300km, even if we encounter high-speed traffic jams, it is no problem to deal with it, and the endurance of Xiaopeng models has always been more realistic, there is no need to worry, and now the high-speed service area is not mostly charging piles? If there is not enough electricity, it can also be replenished halfway.
Hearing this, the friend relaxed a lot, but his damn sense of worry is still at work: "Now many service areas do have charging piles, but the general holiday traffic is large, and I don't know when to queue up to charge." ”
He said this, but aroused my curiosity, anyway, today is not in a hurry, I decided to go into the service area on the way home, into the service area to simply feel the "living conditions" of the majority of electric vehicle owners.
Although the journey home is not very far, but for the sake of safety, I still decided to charge the power of Xiaopeng P5 to more than 90% before leaving, in case I was really said by the crow's mouth of a friend, the high-speed service area charging should be queued up, that must not be split in situ? Anyway, Xiaopeng charging is free, not charged white, not charged, after the Xiaopeng APP found the nearest Xiaopeng charging station, we drove directly over.
Xiaopeng charging station popularity speed is still quite fast, after a meal of operation, soon to P5 charged, charging station also has a lounge, when charging the car, people do not sit in the car, bored if you can go to the lounge to play the game brush vibrato, anyway fast charging speed is very fast, will not wait too long.
After more than half an hour, the battery level has been charged to 90%, well, fast charge really fragrant, go!
After a period of urban road driving, we finally got on the high speed, electric vehicles and fuel vehicles have different characteristics, when driving at high speed, the energy consumption of electric vehicles does not drop but rises, and fuel vehicles are low-speed fuel, high-speed fuel saving, I have to say that driving a tram running high-speed will still subconsciously look at the mileage.
Here you can first explain to you, this time the route is from Guangzhou to Shaoguan, that is, from south to north, it is a simulation of the home route of some car owners working in the Pearl River Delta, and the time is January 29.
After driving for a while, we entered the first service area, the Fogang parking area, where the map showed charging piles.
After all, it is relatively close to Guangzhou, so the traffic flow in the Fogang parking area is not small, and even the parking space is a little difficult to find, I just came in and thought: To charge here, there must be no play.
Sure enough, walking to the charging area, the charging parking space was full, there was no rut, we could only go to the next service area.
The next service area along the way is the Yuwan service area, where the traffic flow is also not small, although it has been a distance from Guangzhou, but refueling, buying things, and going to the toilet still have to queue.
When you come to the area with charging piles, it is still full! The friend who sat in the co-driver had some schadenfreude: "Look, I said that charging in the high-speed service area is very uncomfortable, and I experienced it on my relatives' tram trip on the National Day last year." ”
I was a little speechless, got out of the car and was waiting in line for charging the owner of the car to communicate a bit, he said that in order to be able to get on the green card to buy an electric car, usually on the Guangzhou city road commuting, not much on the highway, but also convenient to save money, but is every holiday home, to run high-speed long-distance will be more troublesome. I forgot to ask the owner where the owner was from, but judging by the accent, it should be Hunan.
With two service areas in a row, I have no confidence, fortunate that the Xiaopeng P5 I drove has such a long battery life, and I am glad that I charged before I set off.
The next service area is the Qujiang service area, from the traffic flow into the service area I know, this service area is not good, not much to say, directly on the picture:
Our last service area along the way is the Danxia service area, this service area is farther from Guangzhou, the traffic flow is significantly less, but the number of charging piles here is less than the previous few, do not sell Guanzi, or directly on the picture:
In fact, along the way, my friends and I are afraid for pure electric vehicle owners, if you run high speed without full preparation, want to make up electricity in the service area, then it must be more troublesome than fuel vehicles. Are the service areas close to large cities such as Guangzhou facing the same situation? In other provinces, is it also a bit "weak-minded" for pure electric car owners to run long distances?
I have to say that although pure electric models are the trend of the times, the construction of charging facilities is also a long way to go, for many people, trams are convenient, but sometimes it is also troublesome, after all, not everyone will buy a long endurance model.
Finally, I also remind everyone again that pure electric models travel long distances, especially during holidays, be sure to load your car with "bullets", otherwise the "hard battle" may be very hanging.