News on March 3, on Wednesday, local time in the United States, Tesla boss Musk replied to a tweet from fans that the mileage of electric vehicles is too high and meaningless. Some electric car owners responded: Who understands the pain of queuing for 2 hours in the high-speed service area to charge?
Musk explained that he said that he had made a model S (600 miles) of 965 kilometers before 12 months ago, but based on the comprehensive factors of resource utilization, vehicle handling, acceleration experience, etc., he believed that ultra-long-endurance electric vehicles were no longer meaningful.
Musk believes that from the perspective of "product and efficiency", it is believed that pure electric increases the pure electric mileage, only by continuously increasing the volume and weight of the battery pack, but the larger volume and weight of the battery pack will in turn affect the electric energy efficiency and driving speed of the vehicle and the sense of control, so it is not cost-effective to say that the long-lasting tram is not cost-effective.
In fact, from the perspective of a product manager, there seems to be nothing wrong with it. For example, like the mobile phones we use every day, a mobile phone can also improve the endurance by increasing the battery capacity, but the battery volume will inevitably increase, resulting in a poor grip experience of the mobile phone, and it is also seriously lost in aesthetics, so it is not very cost-effective.
Of course, the attributes of pure electric vehicles and mobile phones are different, and the two cannot be compared, but here is just an example to illustrate. But back then, it's easy to understand what Musk is trying to say.
Before that, Musk has also recalled that long endurance is not the only way to solve the endurance anxiety, Musk has said that the electric car endurance at about 400 miles (643 kilometers) is enough to use, and the long range of electric vehicles no longer has much significance.
What do you think of Musk's claims? Some electric car owners responded that they did not agree with Musk's views. They believe that pure electric vehicles and fuel vehicles have essential differences, and the use efficiency of the two is completely different.
Fuel car fuel is gone, directly to the gas station to refuel, 3-5 minutes can be filled with a tank of fuel to travel 500-700 kilometers, the convenience of using the car is greatly improved.
On the other hand, pure electric vehicles are not so good, even if the pure electric vehicles have fast charging technology, assuming an endurance of 600 kilometers, the current commercial fast charging fast charging fastest full charge is also 50 minutes (about 0-80%), and the actual delay in charging is quite a lot.
In other cases, even if the fast charge technology supports only 30 minutes from 30%-80%, it is completely unable to meet the demand in the case of running at high speed, and it is impossible to solve the problem of battery life anxiety. Anyone who has used an electric car has a deep understanding.
Not only the charging efficiency of this factor, or the number of charging piles, the current national charging pile foundation measures are few, charging is not convenient. Of course, you may refute that you can park at home to charge, but according to the reality of the situation, how many people can install charging piles at home? Many car owners want to install charging piles in parking spaces, but will the residential property allow it?
So, let's go back to Musk's problem just now, can the car have a long range to solve the endurance anxiety? I think it is completely impossible, but it can effectively solve the driving endurance pressure of some people, especially car owners who need to run high speeds.
If your pure electric endurance can travel 1000 kilometers, even if you run a high-speed 6.5 discount, you can actually drive 650, the average person from the big city back to their hometown, a trip may be 500-600 kilometers, according to this idea is completely enough to use.
If your pure electric vehicle calibration endurance is 500-600 kilometers, but in fact run high-speed 6.5 discount, can only run 300-400 kilometers, in this case, the owner's heart is particularly weak, will not break anchor on the way, or to charge twice more.
Especially in the case of the New Year's Holiday traffic is huge, the number of charging piles in the highway service area is too small, the number of pure electric vehicles is also quite large, and the embarrassing scene of queuing for 1-2 hours of charging has you ever experienced? Frankly speaking, Xiaobian has experienced it and will never forget it.
Therefore, Musk has not experienced the suffering of pure electric vehicle owners, do not think that long endurance is meaningless, in fact, and Weilai founder Li Bin sighed: I can't understand at all, how nostalgic it is to buy a gas car, in addition to being able to smell a little gasoline, what else is good. ”
Perhaps, the two of them may not have experienced the experience of a real pure electric car owner! What do you think?