In addition to festivities, long-distance travel is almost synonymous with the Spring Festival. For new energy vehicles, long-distance travel also means that they will face problems such as endurance anxiety and difficulty in replenishing energy. Based on this situation, long-distance travel has become a taboo topic that many new energy vehicle companies avoid talking about.
However, after the Spring Festival holiday in 2022, the three new forces of Weilai, Xiaopeng and Ideal released a Spring Festival travel report on user travel data from January 31 to February 6, 2022, breaking the taboo topic of long-distance travel of new energy vehicles. In Xiao Lei's view, the reason why "Wei Xiaoli" dares to release the Spring Festival travel report against the wind is because they have a certain volume, so they can give a beautiful report card.
Many people look at the achievements of car companies from the perspective of delivery. This time, Xiao Lei wants to follow up on the opportunity of these three new car-making forces to release the Spring Festival travel report, to see what are the similarities and differences in their various performances during the Spring Festival.
Common points of Wei Xiaoli's Spring Festival travel report
In the Spring Festival travel reports of Weilai, Xiaopeng and Ideal, there is a set of data that is particularly conspicuous, that is, the total mileage of these three new car-making users during the Spring Festival holiday.
From January 31 to February 6, the total mileage of the three brands of Niolai, Xiaopeng and Ideal exceeded 10 million kilometers. Among them, the total mileage of Weilai Automobile during the Spring Festival is 57366215 kilometers, Xiaopeng Automobile is 54474118 kilometers, and the ideal car is 55270962 kilometers.
If you only look at these big data, many people may feel unclear, but Xiao Lei thought of combining the three possessions, to see how many new energy vehicle users who are tormented by "electric daddy" in the eyes of the outside world can run during the Spring Festival.
You know, at this time node of the Spring Festival, it can be said that it is the biggest test for pure electric vehicles all year round. Including Xiao Lei, many consumers will be dissuaded by the car scene of the Spring Festival when considering the purchase of pure electric vehicles.
Due to the general cold weather during the Spring Festival and the peak travel period of the Spring Festival, pure electric vehicle users need to consider not only the endurance decay of their cars, but also fully calculate uncertain factors such as the convenience of energy replenishment and traffic jams. Therefore, the mileage anxiety of pure electric vehicle users during the Spring Festival will be infinitely magnified.
So, will Wei Xiaoli users' Spring Festival travel really be affected by the disadvantages of electric vehicles? Next, Xiao Lei used a set of data that was not very practical, but very intuitive, to prove this. According to the delivery data released by NIO, Xiaopeng and Ideal in early February, their cumulative deliveries were 176722, 150,000 and 136356 respectively.
Roughly translated, it means that Weilai, Xiaopeng and Ideal ran an average of 324 kilometers, 363 kilometers and 405 kilometers per vehicle during the Spring Festival. If you just forcibly take the cumulative delivery volume of these three brands and the average mileage traveled during the Spring Festival, then this algorithm has no reference significance.
However, the ideal is to use the extended range electric vehicle technical route, its endurance is more than that of traditional fuel vehicles. Weilai and Xiaopeng adopt the technical route of pure electric vehicles, and pure electric vehicles are the hardest hit areas that make consumers anxious about endurance. If you look at it from this point of view, this average mileage is a bit interesting, because the average mileage of users under these three brands does not differ much.
In addition, the statistics in the Spring Festival travel report of Wei Xiaoli show that the one-way driving distance of Weilai and the farthest ideal is 1732 kilometers and 1799 kilometers, respectively. It can be seen that the gap between Weilai, which needs to be charged and replaced, and the ideal ONE that only needs to refuel to complete the energy replenishment is not large in extreme cases.
In Xiao Lei's view, the reason why Weilai and Xiaopeng users can have a Spring Festival travel experience comparable to that of fuel vehicles is mainly because these two new forces of head car manufacturing have basically improved the energy replenishment system. Among them, Weilai's energy replenishment system is a model in the field of new energy vehicles.
On the supplement, Weilai has no opponents
Weilai's Spring Festival report shows that during the Spring Festival, weilai users' footprints spread all over the north and south of the mainland, the northernmost to Hulunbuir City in Inner Mongolia, the southernmost to Sanya, Hainan, the easternmost to Shuangyashan City in Heilongjiang Province, and the westernmost to Xinjiang Kyzyl Su Kirgiz. It should be known that in addition to Sanya, Hainan, where the layout of new energy vehicles is the most radical, the other three regions are considered to be the blind spots of pure electric vehicle development.
These three regions are either located in the northeast or in the northwest, and the long-term cold climate is not suitable for the development of cold-afraid new energy vehicles, and their economic level also determines that they will not become the best-selling places for new energy vehicles.
Therefore, the energy network in these three regions must be missing, and Weilai users driving their own cars appear in these places, obviously because Weilai has solved their worries. As of February 10, WEI HAS laid out 835 substations and 667 supercharging stations across the country. Among them, 223 high-speed power stations have formed a high-speed power exchange network of "five vertical, three horizontal and four metropolitan areas".
In order to create a "power district house", WEILAI actively lays out power stations in first- and second-tier cities, in order to let Weilai users also fly themselves, Weilai also improves its own energy replenishment network in remote areas. After WEILAI opened the 2,900-kilometer Sichuan-Tibet Line in December 2020, it opened the 2,400-kilometer-long Qinghai-Tibet Line fast charging station on August 80, 2021, and opened the G6, G7, and G8 high-speed supercharging networks in Inner Mongolia on December 16.
In Xiao Lei's view, while opening up the Sichuan-Tibet Line, the Qinghai-Tibet Line, and the Inner Mongolia G6, G7, G8 and other energy replenishment networks leading to remote areas, WEIlai has also solved the worries of WEIlai users going to hulunbuir, Shuangyashan, Kyzyl-Su Kirgiz and other remote areas. You know, the lack of endurance and the replenishment network has always been the pain point of Weilai users, and Weilai has even made a lot of jokes about it.
When Weilai laid out the charging network in remote areas, Weilai users can even drive their cars to the Everest base camp at an altitude of more than 5,000 kilometers, and Weilai will no longer make a farce of "board truck power", which can effectively dispel consumers' anxiety about the mileage of pure electric vehicles when traveling long distances.
So, what effect did Weilai's painstakingly laid out supplementary energy network achieve during the Spring Festival? According to the data of the Weilai Spring Festival travel report, in terms of charging stations, Weilai charging stations provided a total of 104792 services during the Spring Festival. It is worth mentioning that 71.4% of the charging capacity is for other brands of cars. It can be seen that it is not only Weilai users who recognize Weilai charging services, but also other brand pure electric vehicle users who feel that Weilai's charging services are really fragrant.
In terms of power exchange, WEILAI's high-speed substation provided more than 37,700 services during the Spring Festival, and the average daily service of the substation was about 22,323 times. Among them, the most popular high-speed service area for power exchange, G15 Shenhai Expressway Rugao service area, has been replaced 674 times.
Weilai's substation is different from the charging station, its substation is not open to the public, and the cumulative delivery volume of NIO is only 176722. This also means that during the Spring Festival, on average, every WEILAI car will use the Weilai replacement power station for power exchange, so the high-frequency power exchange service utilization rate proves the correctness of Weilai's layout in the field of power exchange.
In addition, in order to improve the flexibility and convenience of user cars, WEILAI has completed the implementation of battery upgrade services since last year. In Xiao Lei's view, statutory holidays such as the Spring Festival and National Day are the peak period for Weilai users to use this service. The data shows that during the Spring Festival, 7326 car owners used the service, unlocking a longer cruising range.
In addition to the layout of charging piles and substations, Weilai, which pays great attention to services, also has a unique "one-click power-up" service. Weilai's flexible power-up method is like a 24-hour supercharger on standby, which can rush to the user's side at any time to provide power-up services.
This service of WEILAI is very suitable for traffic jam scenarios with Spring Festival characteristics. In fact, xiao Lei recently had a tragic experience of driving 25 kilometers in 5 hours on the way back to Guangzhou from Chenzhou, Hunan Province. Fortunately, Xiao Lei was driving a fuel vehicle, otherwise he would have blocked the electricity on the highway that did not go to the village and did not shop.
Xiao Lei believes that on the coverage ability of the charging network, Weilai may not be the most top-notch, but on the comprehensiveness of the energy network, it has not found an opponent that can fight even in the world. However, the comprehensiveness of the energy network is only the tip of the iceberg of Weilai's layout, and its performance in intelligence is also quite brilliant.
Weilai Intelligence also showed brilliance
According to the data of WEILAI Spring Festival Travel Report, the total mileage of NIO Pilot during the Spring Festival was as high as 7526690 kilometers. Among them, the longest mileage of NIO Pilot bicycles in a single day reached 1571 kilometers, and the longest single-day driving time of bicycles reached 15.4 hours.
In contrast, Xiaopeng's XPILOT intelligent driver's cumulative driving mileage is 4406856 kilometers, and the ideal navigation assistance driving function has a cumulative driving mileage of 2044719 kilometers. Nio Pilot's cumulative total mileage is 1.7 times that of Xiaopeng XPILOT Intelligent Assisted Driving, and 3.6 times that of the ideal navigation assistance driving system.
In fact, among the many new forces of car-making, XPILOT intelligent assisted driving system has always been the signature of Xiaopeng Automobile, and in Xiaolei's impression, its achievements in the field of automatic driving can almost be compared to Tesla. In contrast, Weilai's news in the field of automatic driving is mostly negative. Therefore, it is quite surprising that Nio users can trust NIO Pilot so much.
Interestingly, in addition to the driver assistance system, the intelligent cockpit utilization rate of Nio Auto is also fully dominant. The NIO Spring Festival travel report shows that NIO users interact with NOMI as many as 8054435 times during the Spring Festival.
In contrast, the cumulative number of small P wakeups of Xiaopeng's family is 4061383 times, and the voice assistant usage rate reaches 98.4%, while the average voice usage rate of the ideal ONE is only 63.3%. Weilai's advantage in the utilization rate of smart cockpits can no longer be described as slightly superior, it is simply a huge gap.
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Through comparison, we can find that compared with Weilai, which plays a high-end brand for all-round layout, Xiaopeng Automobile, which has always prided itself on science and technology, can only be said to be decent in the field of science and technology. Although Xiaopeng Automobile has the most extensive charging network in the country, a single type of energy supplement has also become its short board.
It should be known that with the entry of car companies and battery suppliers such as Geely and Ningde Times, the power exchange mode is likely to become a new wind in the field of energy replenishment in 2022. Xiao Lei believes that as far as the field of energy replenishment is concerned, Weilai, which has a comprehensive layout of various energy supplementation solutions such as charging, power exchange, and charging vehicles, has advantages that are difficult for other new car-making forces to achieve.
Compared with Xiaopeng Motors, which has a complete energy replenishment network, the ideal car is more embarrassing. Eliminating the user's battery life anxiety through the extended-range electric technology route is only the short-term winning way of the ideal car, and its biggest advantage is to focus on the present, and its biggest disadvantage is to focus only on the present.
From the perspective of the product layout of the ideal car, it will definitely get involved in the field of pure electric vehicles in the future. The lack of layout in the energy replenishment network will become the biggest problem it faces in the process of technological transformation.
Due to the poor delivery volume of WEILAI in the fourth quarter of 2021, many people look down on Weilai, believing that this is a manifestation of its subsequent weakness. Later, WEIlai proved that its delivery performance in the fourth quarter was mainly affected by chip shortages and production line transformations.
Although the three Spring Festival travel reports officially released by "Wei Xiaoli" only reflect its use during the Spring Festival, it is enough to show the degree of user recognition of the technology and layout of these three new car-making forces.
We can see by comparing the Spring Festival travel reports of Weilai, Xiaopeng and the ideal Spring Festival that Whether it is in terms of the energy replenishment network or the acceptance of consumers for its assisted driving and intelligent cockpits, Weilai is a well-deserved handle in china's new car-making forces.
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