Recently, the price of new energy vehicles has "risen". New energy vehicle companies, including Tesla, Xiaopeng, BYD, Nezha, etc., have issued price adjustment announcements, with general increases ranging from 3,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan, and some car companies have raised prices by nearly 30,000 yuan. In the face of the increasingly fierce price increase, consumers can't help but wonder whether it is suitable to start a new energy vehicle now?
Source: Xiaopeng Automobile public number
Overall, in response to this round of new energy vehicle price increases, the market believes that there are two main reasons. First, the recent price of important raw materials including lithium, nickel and other power batteries has soared, ring transmission, and vehicle prices have been forced to rise; second, the mainland has implemented new energy vehicle purchase subsidies since 2013, and has now entered a period of subsidy decline and gear shifting, according to the requirements of relevant departments, "the subsidy standard for new energy vehicles in 2022 will decline by 30% on the basis of 2021", which has also led to frequent price increases by new energy vehicle companies to a certain extent.
Xu Haidong, deputy chief engineer of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, said that the rise in the price of new energy vehicles in this round, the rise of power battery raw materials is the most important and fundamental reason, and the subsidy policy of new energy vehicles is a secondary reason.
"It is understood that the cycle of power battery expansion takes 6-8 months, raw materials generally take one and a half years, and lithium ore and other mining capacity increase takes two and a half to three years, so the raw material industry and the battery industry in the vehicle and vehicle market development information asymmetry, that is to say, the construction of raw material production capacity is relatively lagging behind." Xu Haidong also pointed out that in the short term, it is difficult to solve the situation that new energy vehicles are "difficult to find a car", especially some popular models and new models.
Taking advantage of the "high price" and "difficult to buy" of new energy vehicles, some people even started a crooked idea. By placing an order for multiple new energy vehicles at once, locking in a lock price and then selling the order indicator at hand. Such a "mark-up transfer car" is likely to lead to the "receiver" losing the preferential protection such as charging and replacing the battery and warranty that it should have.
Regardless of whether the oil truck is a new energy vehicle, value for money is the key. It is worth noting that in response to the sharp rise in raw materials, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently held a symposium to require upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to strengthen the docking of supply and demand, and jointly guide the rational return of lithium salt prices, upstream materials for power batteries. In February, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also stressed at the press conference that this year will moderately accelerate the development of domestic lithium, nickel and other resources, and crack down on unfair competition such as hoarding and price gouging.
Source: People's Daily (Reporter: Shen Jiaping)
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