Auto companies seem to be the "nail households" of 315, and they attend almost every year. 18 years of Volkswagen Touareg engine water, 20 years of Baojun 560 gearbox failure, 21 years of the highest voice should be Tesla, but in the end it was Ford and Infiniti because of the gearbox problem "double material" on the list.
Looking back at the exposure history of 315 in previous years, it can be seen that the companies that have been named are related to traditional fuel vehicles, new energy vehicle companies have not been on the 315 party once, and Tesla, which is closest to 315, also "passed by" last year.
Nowadays, the subsidies related to new energy vehicle companies are gradually receding, will new energy vehicle companies that are no longer considered emerging industries be "invited" by 315? Will WM Motors be a typical example of this?
The barbaric growth of the new energy automobile industry will be "killed by the chicken and the monkey" by 315?
315 refers to the International Consumer Rights Day, which aims to protect consumer rights. However, the way to protect rights and interests is not to expose all "bad" enterprises, the focus is on grasping typical ones, which can also be understood as "killing chickens and making an example".
Looking back at the 9 incidents exposed last year, the main reference standards for 315 exposure revolve around the word "security", including information security (mobile phone security traps, resume black hands and search "disease"), food safety (see also Clenbuterol), personal safety (Ford and Infiniti gearboxes and "slimming" reinforcement) and property safety (black curtain for watch maintenance).
The 315 exposed enterprises involve all walks of life, generally speaking, there is no connection between the two incidents, but from the perspective of safety considerations, it will be found that in addition to food safety, the chaos in the new energy automobile industry almost meets all the selection criteria of 315 last year:
Personal safety: Spontaneous combustion, brake failure, and automatic driving technology failure of new energy vehicles seriously threaten the safety of car owners.
Property safety: The transparency of the new energy automobile industry is relatively low, and various insider operations are carried out
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Problems such as endless insurance fraud and high-priced accessories have become the unspoken rules of the industry.
Information security: The era of electrification has passed, and the current intelligence is the biggest highlight of new energy vehicles, but the industry has not yet established a set of standards to regulate the boundaries of information collection of car companies, and new energy vehicles can almost make people "naked".
Since the inception of 315, there has not been an industry that threatens the safety of consumers from multiple dimensions, and the new energy automobile industry is the first. From last year's consumers' high call for Tesla's 315, it can be found that the majority of consumers have begun to be dissatisfied with the chaos of the new energy automobile industry.
So why didn't the new energy vehicles represented by Tesla go up to 315 last year? There may be two reasons for this:
First of all, the relevant departments lack corresponding "standards", which means that the new energy industry has not yet passed the "development" stage, and there is no clear industry standard to identify and delineate responsibilities. Of course, it is not ruled out that the 315 of new energy vehicle companies will hit the enthusiasm of new car-making forces and affect the overall development of the new energy automobile industry.
Secondly, the relevant departments lack evidence, the node where the Tesla accident occurred is too close to 315, and the relevant departments are too late to collect evidence. Moreover, as we all know, Tesla's public relations at that time had a consistent style of "no mistakes", and the safety accident was not completely conclusive in legal theory.
However, this year is different from the past, the penetration rate of the new energy automobile industry has exceeded 20%, has already crossed the initial "development" stage, although the industry standard is not perfect, but there is already a certain reference basis, and the "knocking" of authoritative departments on new energy vehicle companies is becoming more and more frequent.
When an industry grows barbarically, it will inevitably enter a new stage that is in urgent need of being corrected. For example, e-cigarettes, after the market outbreak in 2018, 315 in 2019 named it, and since then, relevant policies have been issued one after another, and the e-cigarette track has been regularized.
The chaotic new energy automobile industry seems to have reached this stage, and it just "fits" with the theme of 315. According to the previous standards of 315, the new energy automobile industry may be launched as a model.
Second, the "unspoken rules" of the new energy industry are flooded, and WM Motors is anxious to be "typical"?
315 is coming, Nezha, Weima, Xiaopeng, BYD and other car companies have been complained about by consumers, looking at the focus of the contradiction between car companies and consumers, it seems that the problems involved in WM are more comprehensive.
The main trigger for the outbreak of contradictions between consumers and WM Motors is the "lock electricity" problem, the reason for the matter is that from December 23 last year to January 15 this year, WM Motors launched the "New Year User Premium", selected 18,000 car owners, and gave them comprehensive vehicle inspection services and gift cards of 200 yuan, but after the vehicle inspection returned, some owners found that the mileage dropped significantly.
As a result, there are relevant car owners according to this incident to write a song called "200 blocks will deceive me", the collective complaint initiator "Mi Zhou is not surnamed Mi" Follow-up is on Weibo @ WM Motor founder Shen Hui and WM Motor, and said, "315 is not seen and not scattered."
The authenticity of "locking the electric door" aside for the time being, the focus of the problem may be on why the car company locks the electricity, is it really to protect the battery or extend the battery life?
Perhaps not necessarily, "locking electricity" in the popular sense refers to locking part of the power to avoid overcharge and over-discharge of the battery, and the overcharge and over-discharge of the power battery may lead to spontaneous combustion.
For example, most of the spontaneous combustion of mobile phone batteries in the early days is caused by overshoot overcharge, as long as part of the power is locked, the possibility of spontaneous combustion will be reduced, but the mobile phone battery capacity is small and most of them are single-group batteries, software control can avoid spontaneous combustion caused by overshoot to the greatest extent, and mobile phone companies do not lock the power to "provoke" users.
The situation of the power battery is more complicated, and it is difficult to avoid spontaneous combustion only by relying on software self-regulation, so it is necessary to lock the power. For example, the original battery can be fully 99% (ideally 100%), but the car company locks 20% of the power through the battery management system, can only charge 79%, and the battery will reduce the margin with the increase of the age, and the charging capacity of the locked car may be much lower than 79%.
In the entire new energy automobile industry, it is not only WM Motors that is caught in the power lock controversy, but also car companies such as Weilai, GAC Toyota, and Xiaopeng Automobile. Interestingly, before the outbreak of the power locking controversy, these companies had more or less news reports that their new energy vehicles had spontaneous combustion.
For example, the most typical Tesla, after the concentrated outbreak of spontaneous combustion accidents in 2019, Tesla issued an OTA upgrade statement, not surprisingly, sure enough, some car owners broke the news that their Tesla was locked in power after the upgrade. But unfortunately, the relevant industry standards at that time were not perfect at that time, and it was difficult to confirm the fact that Tesla locked the electricity.
The situation of GAC Toyota iA5 is similar, in the month after the outbreak of spontaneous combustion accidents, some car owners also revealed that their iA5 was suspected of being locked in electricity.
Since October 2021, WM Motors has recalled 1282 cars, and the reason for the recall is that "the supplier has mixed impurities in the production process". However, in December last year, WM Motor's EX5 spontaneously combusted in Zhengzhou, Sanya and Haikou within a week. At the end of December, after the launch of WM Automobile's "New Year's User Premium" activity, a large number of WM car owners broke the news that they were locked in electricity.
The above part of the spontaneous combustion accident has not yet been conclusive in legal theory, but if all the revelations are true, then the "unspoken rules" of the new energy automobile industry have committed three crimes: ignoring the consumer's right to know and upgrading the system privately; putting immature vehicles on the market, endangering the personal safety of consumers; falsely reporting mileage false publicity, infringing on the interests of consumers.
When the unspoken rules of the industry are put on the surface, then it is necessary for authoritative institutions to correct the chaos in time to guide the new energy automobile industry to the formal, 315 may be a good platform. According to the Tianyancha APP, the amount of public opinion of WM Automobile in the past month increased by 61% year-on-year.
WM car is not only caught in the power lock controversy, but also the occurrence of vehicle spontaneous combustion accidents, and even recently even fell into the controversy of the sudden failure of the brake system, whether 315 will take WM car as a typical "knocking on the mountain", we will see and do.
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