Dahe News Yu video reporter Geng Ziteng Qi Yi
Around the Spring Festival, a number of new energy vehicles announced price increases, the first day of the New Year is BYD and Extraordinary Automobile, the first day of work is Wuling Hongguang, related companies have said that due to the sharp rise in raw material prices and the double impact of the decline in state subsidies, the rise in car prices is inevitable.
During the Spring Festival, the prices of three new energy companies rose
On February 1, Feifan Automobile officially announced the adjustment of the price of some models of its MARVELL R and ER6 car series, and the prices of the two cars increased by 1,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan respectively.
BYD Automobile also raised the price of its new energy product series Dynasty Network and Ocean Network, with an increase of 1,000-7,000 yuan. It is understood that BYD Automobile's price adjustment range involves a total of 11 models, namely Qin PLUS DM-i, Qin PLUS EV, Song PLUS DM-i, Song PLUS EV, Song Pro DM-i, Yuan Pro, Han EV, Han DM, Tang DM-i, 2021 Tang DM and Dolphin models.
On February 7, according to the official news of Wuling, the price of Wuling NanoEV was adjusted, and the price of the whole series increased by 3,000 yuan.
In fact, this is already the second round of price increases for new energy vehicles in 2022, after which the price of Tesla Model 3 rear wheel drive version rose by 10,000 yuan, model Y rear wheel drive version rose by 21,000 yuan; Xiaopeng P7 rose by 4300-5900 yuan, P5 price increased by 4800-5400 yuan, Xiaopeng G3i rose by 4800-5400 yuan; GAC Aian LX rose by 4000 yuan, and the new AION S Plus increased by more than 7000 yuan compared with 2021 Nezha V part of the model rose by 2,000 yuan, Nezha U part of the model rose by 3,000-5,000 yuan; leading T03 price increase of 8,000-9,000 yuan ...
Find the reason, subsidies less cost price increases
Relevant personnel of the Henan Automobile Industry Association said that the large-scale price increase before and after the Spring Festival has a certain relationship with the decline of subsidies for new energy vehicles.
On December 31, 2021, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued that the subsidy standard for new energy vehicles in 2022 will decline by 30% on the basis of 2021, making it clear that the subsidy for new energy vehicles will be terminated on December 31, 2022, and the vehicles licensed after December 31 will no longer be subsidized, which will be implemented in 2022, which will indeed have a certain impact on new energy vehicles.
On the one hand, the subsidy is 30% less, on the one hand, the cost of new energy vehicles is rising, the sales manager of BYD Wenhua 4S store told reporters that the price increase of new energy vehicles may also be related to the rise in raw material prices, according to statistics, the price of battery-grade lithium carbonate in 2021 will increase by more than 400%.
The reporter's inquiry found that in the past year, the core of new energy vehicles - power battery costs have risen rapidly, and the price of nickel, lithium and other metals has doubled. According to data from the China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance, from June 2020 to the end of 2021, the cost of the 523 ternary battery rose from 0.52 yuan per watt-hour to 0.77 yuan, an increase of 48.1%,; the cost of lithium iron phosphate batteries rose from 0.47 yuan to 0.66 yuan, an increase of 40.4%.
The price of new energy models has generally risen, is it still worth buying new energy vehicles?
In the Tesla store in Zhengzhou, the reporter met Ms. Zhang who came to buy a new car, she told reporters, knowing that the subsidy for new energy vehicles has declined, and she also knows that the price of the model she wants to buy has increased, but she pays more attention to the new energy vehicle is not limited and the sense of value brought to herself, so Tesla's price increase did not affect her to buy a car.
In another directly operated store of new energy vehicles, Mr. Liu and his wife, a citizen who came to see the car, said that the price of the model they wanted to buy increased by more than 4,000 yuan, and they felt a bit overwhelmed, "160,000 cars have risen so much, it feels a little worthless." Mr. Liu told reporters that he bought new energy vehicles mainly to see the unlimited line, "so much more money, charging is not very convenient, I am ready to wait." ”
"We are applying for a new energy 4S store, and the sales of new energy vehicles will still grow." The person in charge of a large dealer group in Zhengzhou believes that behind the announcement of price increases by car companies is the big outbreak of the new energy vehicle market last year, "Last year, many dealers who sold new energy vehicles made a lot of money, and this year's confidence is of course more sufficient." He believes that new energy vehicles have initially got rid of the model of relying solely on policy development and have already obtained market positions by products and services, so the current temporary price fluctuations have little impact on the overall sales in 2022, "and even the more the price rises, the hotter the sales situation."
According to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, in 2021, the production and sales of automobiles in the mainland reached 26.082 million and 26.275 million vehicles, respectively, an increase of 3.4% and 3.8% year-on-year, of which Zhengzhou ranked eighth in the country with sales of 77918 vehicles, Luoyang sold 22543 new energy vehicles, and the annual sales of Xinxiang, Nanyang, Puyang, Shangqiu and Zhumadian exceeded 10,000 units.
Source: Dahe Newspaper Yu Video Editor: Jie Minggang