Among the traditional luxury brands, Volvo can be said to be the fastest pace in the transition to electrification, starting to use the plug-in hybrid system early, and last year also launched its first pure electric model - Volvo XC40 New Energy. Some time ago, this pure electric SUV ushered in the listing of new models, not only further lowered the purchase threshold, and the newly launched P6 series as a single motor version, the endurance is also stronger, its CLTC pure electric mileage reached 529km, charging a wider range of activities. So, what is the cost of the new Volvo XC40 pure electric car maintenance? In today's case of soaring oil prices, how much can you save compared to the fuel version of the model? Next, we will take the most concerned "2022 P6 Pure Electric Two-Wheel Drive Zhiya Sports Edition" as a reference model to investigate its insurance costs, maintenance costs and electricity costs.
Insurance costs
Some time ago, after the release of the exclusive insurance for new energy vehicles, the three-electric quality insurance, spontaneous combustion, etc. were included in the coverage, which made the premiums of most new energy vehicles more or less increased. In response to this problem, we went to a special renewal agency to learn that volvo XC40 pure electric model, after purchasing 3 million three basic insurance types, car damage insurance and compulsory traffic insurance, the insurance cost in the first year is about 6405 yuan, of which, affected by captive insurance, the current price of car damage insurance has reached about 3255 yuan.
However, if the subsequent use of the vehicle does not occur without accidents, the premium will have a 20% discount in the second year and a 30% discount in the third year, which translates down, and the total insurance cost of Volvo XC40 pure electricity for three years is almost 16013 yuan, and the average annual is about 5338 yuan. As a 250,000-class pure electric compact SUV, such a premium price is not too expensive, compared to the Volvo XC40 fuel version, due to the need to pay additional car and boat tax, so there are about 5700 yuan a year insurance costs, which is nearly 400 yuan more expensive than the pure electric version.
Maintenance costs
As a pure electric model, volvo XC40 is still very worry-free to maintain, eliminating the maintenance of the engine and other aspects, mainly based on vehicle inspection. According to the official maintenance manual, the maintenance interval of Volvo XC40 pure electricity is 10,000 km or 12 months (whichever is achieved first). The first insurance needs to check the three electric systems, chassis and other aspects, and then with the vehicle driving, there will be some wear parts that need to be replaced, every 20,000 kilometers need to be replaced by the air conditioning filter, about 698 yuan, on this basis, when the mileage reaches 40,000 kilometers, but also pay attention to the replacement of antifreeze and brake fluid and other items, about 1872 yuan.
According to the family car three years to drive 60,000 kilometers as a large maintenance cycle, then Volvo XC40 pure electricity three years of total need for the general maintenance cost of about 6,000 yuan, on average, only need to spend 2,000 yuan per year on maintenance. The fuel version of the Volvo XC40 is more cumbersome to maintain than the electric car, and the annual maintenance cost is almost 3,000 yuan, which is 1,000 yuan higher.
Electricity
Because the Volvo XC40 pure electric P6 series uses a single motor drive, and some adjustments have been made to the power battery, the cruising range can reach 529km, and the theoretical power consumption of 100 kilometers is about 13kWh. As a commuter to use, usually we are charging at home, the current price of household electricity in 0.56 yuan / kWh, according to the family car a year to drive 20,000 kilometers of mileage to calculate, then Volvo XC40 pure electricity annual electricity costs about 1456 yuan. Although it is in the ideal state of electricity performance, the actual cost of the car may be adjusted, but in contrast, the fuel version of the Volvo XC40, affected by the recent continuous oil price surge, now calculate the next year's fuel costs of about 12,000 yuan, more than 10,000 yuan more expensive than the pure electric version of the model.
summary
In general, the cost of the Volvo XC40 pure electricity in all aspects is very cheap, a year down the total of about 8794 yuan, the average month is 733 yuan, of which the insurance cost is 5338 yuan, maintenance is about 2000 yuan, electricity only needs 1456 yuan. Compared with the fuel version of about 20,000 yuan a year to maintain the car cost, Volvo XC40 pure electric energy saves nearly 11,000 yuan in costs, mainly because the energy consumption cost of the two cars is too different, especially in the case of the current oil price soaring, volvo XC40 pure electricity in the car maintenance advantage is more obvious.