"Zero anxiety" and "no anxiety" are words that often appear in some recent new car promotions.
In the era of new energy, manufacturers take "eliminating anxiety" as a propaganda point to persuade consumers to choose pure electric products, and the "anxiety" refers to the general anxiety of endurance.
In fact, in order to solve the anxiety of the endurance of electric vehicles this year, it is not difficult.
For example, installing a large set of batteries and achieving a capacity of hundreds of kWh can obtain a long cruising range.
Nowadays, the endurance of four or five hundred kilometers is no longer unusual, and some top models have run to the goal of thousands of kilometers.
If the problem of charging speed still needs time to progress, but in order to make pure electric vehicles get the same convenience as gasoline vehicles, they can directly use range extender electric technology.
Therefore, the endurance of electric vehicles itself is no longer an urgent anxiety.
But is our consumers' anxiety about electric vehicles really just as simple as battery life?
We often say that electric vehicles are fragrant because they can fully meet the needs of our daily commute; when we go home, we only need to plug in the charging cable, and in one night we can be fully resurrected.
But the problem lies precisely in the charging link at home.
Even if it is a mini-car with an endurance of only more than 100 kilometers, as long as it is charged diligently, it is also an ultra-low-cost tool for buying vegetables and picking up the baby.
But to enjoy this convenience, you must first meet such a strict condition: fixed parking space, and it is a fixed parking space that supports the installation of charging piles.
Not to mention that it is not an easy task to buy a house in a big city at present, even if you already have a house, buy or rent a parking space, the parking lot may not be able to install private charging piles.
Open-air parking lots in some residential areas, old garages where circuit designs do not meet requirements, and property companies for safety reasons make it difficult to have a "rechargeable fixed parking space".
Therefore, most electric vehicle users actually need to rely on various public charging piles in the city for charging.
Compared with the refueling that can be completed in a few minutes, although it is necessary to go to the gas station, it is always more convenient than going to the mall to find a charging pile and stay for an hour or two.
The limited number of charging piles, queuing for charging, scrambling for charging piles, charging pile failures, charging parking spaces occupied, etc. also make consumers feel anxious about charging.
In addition, the electric drive system is significantly different from the traditional fuel engine, so that the former can obtain stronger power at a lower cost.
Once upon a time, a fuel performance car with 300 or 400 horsepower asked for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but now the price of an electric vehicle of the same power level may be as long as 100,000 or 200,000!
With the support of a powerful motor, even a large SUV with three rows of seats can achieve an amazing result of 0-100km/h acceleration of less than 5 seconds.
The lowering of the power threshold has allowed more people to drive a powerful "sports car", but with it is not only the pleasure of acceleration, but also the danger.
Driving a high-horsepower car is not an easy task, especially for electric vehicles that are more sensitive and intense in power response than traditional fuel models, and can output ultra-high torque at any time without worrying about speed.
Many inexperienced novice drivers can't adapt to such a powerful power, while some drivers even know how to seek excitement and have no reverence for power.
If they fail to grasp the pedal depth of the accelerator pedal in the daily driving process, do not release the pedal at the right time or even step on the wrong pedal, it is likely to cause the vehicle to lose control, and may even cause serious accidents.
Therefore, the potential dangers brought about by the high performance of the low threshold are also one of the anxieties brought to us by electric vehicles at present.
In addition, technology has also become a source of anxiety for consumers about electric vehicles.
Nowadays, the level of intelligence of electric vehicles is getting higher and higher, and many key functions are integrated into powerful vehicles, and the intelligent operating system "takes care of everything".
"Smart cars are becoming a very large electronic product", this is the professor's most heard evaluation of car intelligence.
But just as a mobile phone can go down, even the most advanced operating system can one day fail.
I believe that many readers and friends have heard that various brands of electric vehicles cannot continue to drive safely due to problems such as system upgrades, system catons, and even black screens and crashes during driving.
There are also users who share the embarrassing situation that their electric vehicles cannot open the charging port cover due to the failure of the car machine.
In recent years, there have been frequent news of serious accidents caused by failing to brake, slow down, steering, etc. that vehicles that have turned on the assisted driving function have been often turned on in time.
Although many of them are caused by drivers' excessive trust in intelligent driver assistance systems, and their failure to pay attention to road conditions and take over the vehicle at any time, the emergence of these news has also caused many people to have concerns about the safety of intelligent vehicles.
What's more, more hackers overseas claimed to have "hacked several Teslas", even if they are not the owner of the car, they can remotely control the vehicle to open the window and close the sentry mode.
Although the hackers also said that they could not control the driving of the vehicle for the time being, this incident also caused many consumers to discuss.
Today is still a hacker's prank, open your car window; what if one day he can take full control of your smart car, or even take over your vehicle remotely while driving?
There is no doubt that this is still possible (many movies have already described it similarly).
Although the intelligent system can also improve security through upgrades, users can also protect their account security by changing passwords and other ways on a regular basis; but as far as the current situation is concerned, electric vehicles need to make more efforts to improve the security part of the system.
Finally, of course, as a high-value bulk consumer product, for ordinary families, after buying a car, it will certainly be used for a long time and will not be easily replaced.
However, at present, electric models do have significant performance attenuation of batteries in the long-term use level, and the three-electric system will also bring higher costs when repairing, making consumers doubt their durability.
Leaving aside the problems of recycling and reuse brought about by the old battery pack in the future; the maintenance cost caused by the damage to the battery alone is enough to cause "anxiety".
Of course, we can also say that many electric models currently have batteries or even three electric life warranties, and there is no need to worry about battery failure in the process of using the car.
However, these warranty measures are often limited to the welfare of the first owner, and the next owner has to pay for it after the vehicle changes hands and then needs to be repaired.
This situation directly affects the second-hand market value of electric vehicles.
New cars have been open for a few years and want to sell no one to collect, and the bids that can be collected are low; buyers of second-hand cars are often worried because the lifetime warranty does not apply to the second owner and dare not buy.
The staggering depreciation rate and the high difficulty of changing hands have also become an anxiety in the minds of consumers.
Of course, the professor is not saying that electric cars cannot be bought. It's just that in order to get the best car experience at the moment, before buying an electric car, you must first confirm that you can easily find a stable and reliable charging facility, be able to drive its powerful power performance, and be accustomed to using a full electronic system to control the vehicle.
If the above conditions are met, then buying an electric car as a daily commuting car for the family is also a good choice.
In general, the "anxiety" of electric vehicles is multifaceted, and whether it is the inconvenience of charging, the "excess" of power, the safety and stability of the system, as well as the performance of reliability, durability and retention rate, it is necessary to continuously improve through hardware upgrades, system upgrades and service upgrades.
After the problems in these aspects can be truly alleviated, the professor believes that the electric vehicle at that time can really be regarded as "0 anxiety", which is suitable for the majority of consumers to buy and use as the main vehicle of the family.
Of course, in the new year, in addition to the various anxieties brought by electric vehicles, there are also various aspects of life, and I hope that everyone in front of the screen can have zero anxiety and live every day in 2022!