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Spring was originally the most hated season for mr. Ge, the owner of the car with allergic rhinitis, but every winter after he purchased the GAC AION S 2019 charm EVO 630, he looked forward to the arrival of spring.
"The feeling of driving this car in winter is too unsteady."
Battery life discount, cliff type power loss
The owner is anxious when he is on the road
In April 2019, Aion launched its first model, the AION S, and at the end of the same year, Mr. Goh purchased an AION S 2019 Charm EVO 630. Talking about the reasons for choosing Aehan, who was not too well-known at that time, Mr. Ge said that he was first attracted by its name, and secondly, the 630km cruising range in the promotion.
Mr. Ge told reporters that at that time, his daughter had just been born, and his nickname was "An An", and he felt that Ae's harmonic sound was "Ai An", which very poked at his point. Coupled with the fact that the competition in the new energy market at that time was not as fierce as it is now, many emerging brands had not yet entered the market with mass production cars, and there were fewer benchmarking brands at the same price, so he finally chose Aeon, and chose the high-endurance version.
Mr. Ge's GAC E-An Automobile (Photo provided by the owner of the car issued by the Central Broadcasting Network)
But in the process of use, the 630km endurance in the "legend" has become a piece of his heart disease.
Mr. Ge introduced that he was mentally prepared for the discount on the mileage of new energy vehicles, but he did not expect that it would be so much less. Mr. Ge said that in his actual use, the actual endurance of this car is difficult to achieve even 350km. And every summer and winter when you need to turn on the air conditioner, the driving is always accompanied by anxiety.
"Especially in winter, the power can't catch up with the speed I was surprised."
Mr. Ge said that he later learned that his car could not run 630km even if the endurance was not discounted. When he bought the car, E-an advertised the use of the 60km/h constant speed range that most new energy manufacturers had cancelled, rather than the neDC comprehensive cruising range that was already common in the industry at that time.
The previous promotional poster of the model (provided by the owner of the car)
The AION S 630 related models currently on sale, the officially advertised mileage, has become 510km.
"But that can't be so much less." Mr. Ge actually used to observe that his car is currently fully charged, showing that the endurance is basically maintained at about 500 kilometers, but after running on the road for a while, you will find that it quickly loses power, "For example, the full is 500, after running 100, the remaining display of battery life is about 200." ”
Screenshot of the complaint received by the car complaint station of the Central Broadcasting Network before
The reporter's investigation found that there are not a few Aean car owners who have similar troubles with Mr. Ge, and the remaining endurance that will fall sharply at any time makes them very uneasy during the driving process.
In the third-party test, Aean's low temperature environment endurance test performance is still disappointing.
According to the first financial report, at the end of 2021, the automotive vertical media Understand Chedi conducted a winter endurance test on 41 popular new energy vehicles on the market, and the endurance rate of GAC Aean's two cars ranked in the last class, with a completion rate of only 37.71% and 38.67%. The official cruising range of 600km is only about 230km.
In the comparative test of the low-temperature driving range of 10 electric vehicles recently organized by the Consumers Association of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Province, the measured value of the unlisted AION S low-temperature driving range provided by the manufacturer was 281km, and the achievement rate was 61.1%, ranking seventh.
(Source: Beijing Consumers Association official website)
Spontaneous combustion news goes on
The subsequent shrinkage of the locked electricity is further aggravated
Although the mileage has dropped very badly, Mr. Ge does not want to go to the 4S store and solves it through "OTA upgrade".
Mr. Ge told reporters that in his group of car friends, there were once some owners who went to the store to do an upgrade without being notified or notified, but they did not expect that the upgrade became a "downgrade". These riders' cars, after the "OTA upgrade", the power is limited to about 70% of the original, and the power can only rush into less than 50kw, which is very different from the factory calibration of 58.8kW, and the endurance has decreased more seriously. In the group of car friends, the owner gave this upgrade the code name of "locking the electric door".
"Certificate of power lock" provided by the owner (picture provided by the owner of the central broadcast network)
Mr. Gogh's concern is not unreasonable. In 2021, the "Automobile Complaint Station" of the Central Broadcasting Network reported the power locking incident of GAC Aean. Many car owners are originally "not rich" mileage, because this time the lock power "worse". Why "lock the electricity"? The general view of industry experts is that car manufacturers lock the power through "OTA upgrade", mainly in order to reduce the risk of spontaneous combustion of vehicle batteries when the design defects of the battery cannot be solved in the short term.
The "spontaneous combustion" incident of Aeon has been repeatedly reported in the past two years. Not long ago, a video of the spontaneous combustion of a suspected Ae-V was circulated in the owner group, but the owners who saw it did not show surprise, "Ae-an, it is not the first time." It is understood that since its listing, Aeon has been exposed to spontaneous combustion during driving or when parking. In 2020 alone, seven spontaneous combustion incidents of Aeon were publicly reported. Mr. Ge said that from the observation of an old car owner, Aeon has fallen into the strange circle of "battery problem - OTA upgrade - lock power - problem - upgrade again", so he does not want to experiment with his car before the manufacturer gives a clear statement.
As an important fulcrum of the Group's new energy strategy, GAC Group is committed to building the Aeon brand into its high-end electric vehicle brand. In 2021, GAC Group will promote the mixed reform of GAC Aean, increase its capital and share expansion, and build a new energy vehicle enterprise integrating "research, production and marketing". It can be seen that GAC Group has high hopes for the future of Aeon, but such investment does not know whether to return the owner's recognition of Aeon.
AION LX Plus live broadcast content
On January 5, the Aion AION LX PLUS model was officially launched, and its cruising range is claimed to be up to 1008km. However, although the car has been listed, there is no actual car delivery at present. For car owners like Mr. Ge, who once chose Aean because of their high endurance, the mileage upgraded on paper has little to do with their actual experience. If you ignore the actual experience of car owners, even if the advertised mileage is high, it cannot make people feel at ease.
Source: CCTV