Since the oil price soared, there have been rumors on the Internet about the cost of using various fuel trucks and trams. These comparisons are often only on behalf of their own interests, using the means of horse racing to attack the shortcomings of others with their own strengths, thus exaggerating some facts.
Just like the comparison between the zero-run C11 and a fuel vehicle in the following figure, there are many puzzling places.
First of all, how can the zero-run C11, which is "expensive" for pure trams, be compared with fuel vehicles at the same price!? The price of pure electric cars is already relatively expensive, and the compact SUV of pure electricity will be sold to the price of traditional fuel medium-sized SUVs, just like the same Song PLUS, the pure electric version directly starts from 180,800, while the starting price of the fuel version is only 115,800, and the price difference of the same configuration is as high as 65,000 yuan, so it is reasonable to say that zero-run C11 should look down for "opponents of the same level".
Secondly, the zero-run C11 directly uses "160,000 kilometers / official mileage" to calculate its own use costs, which is really confusing. Does Zero Run dare to pack tickets and say that its NEDC endurance is the real endurance of users every day? Or is it afraid to disclose its official 100-kilometer comprehensive power consumption, so it has to use this method to blur it?
The most outrageous is the post-maintenance of this piece. Not to mention that it uses the maintenance cost of 160,000 kilometers to compare its own maintenance costs of 100,000 kilometers, just 1,000 yuan of small insurance, 4,000 yuan of large insurance, it makes people cry and laugh! A car of less than 200,000, the maintenance cost is actually equivalent to the million-level Mercedes-Benz S-Class, I also want to know what kind of car this is called.
The cost of using electric vehicles and fuel vehicles can be compared, but this is not the comparison.
There are many more such examples, but honestly, they all seem less professional.
The first step is to find the opponent.
Although on major verticals, the Zero Run C11 is positioned as a midsize SUV. But only 4.75 meters long, 1.89 meters wide it is really a little gap with the medium-sized SUV, the only and medium-sized SUV is a bit of a match is its 2.93 meters wheelbase, however, that is only the advantage of the pure electric platform, not its "leapfrog" reason. After all, the driving difficulty of a car is directly related to the length and width, but it has nothing to do with the wheelbase and axle ratio.
Therefore, it is reasonable to say that the fuel opponent of the zero-run C11 should be the A+ SUV of the Chinese brand, of which the 4.7-meter long and 1.89-meter-wide Song PLUS is a very door-to-door opponent. The price difference between the most expensive Song PLUS fuel version and the cheapest zero-run C11 is 36,000 yuan.
Therefore, when calculating the cost of car purchase, we must first consider taking this price difference into account: car price + purchase tax + license fee + vehicle and ship tax + traffic insurance + commercial insurance, the landing price of 143,800 Song PLUS goes to 163779 yuan, and the 179,800 zero-run C11 landing price is 186499 yuan, and the latter is 22,720 yuan more expensive than the former.
The tax breaks for electric vehicles are only temporary and are said to be eliminated in 2023.
The second step is to use the actual situation to calculate the cost of the car.
It is undeniable that the cost of pure electric vehicles is indeed lower than that of fuel vehicles, but it should not be exaggerated in an asymmetrical way - not only the comparison of zero-run C11, other comparison charts circulating on the Internet, pure electric vehicles are basically calculated by their own electricity consumption under NEDC conditions, and their fuel costs are calculated by the actual, even exaggerated fuel consumption of fuel vehicles.
Like fuel consumption, official electricity consumption is often only an ideal value. In fact, the power consumption of pure trams is not only affected by the conditions of use, but also by the ambient temperature, and its variables are much more complex than fuel consumption - just like the electricity consumption in summer and winter is very different, and it is impossible to directly use the official electricity consumption to directly calculate the cost of use.
Winter energy consumption and summer energy consumption are really not the same day.
At a time when online media is so powerful, it is not difficult to find out the actual energy consumption of zero-run C11 and Song PLUS. In the energy consumption test of the fuel version of Song PLUS in the major vertical websites, the comprehensive fuel consumption of 100 kilometers is about 8.2L; while the energy consumption of the zero-run C11 is about 16kWh/100km in summer and 32kWh/100km in winter.
If the current price of 8.66 yuan per liter of No. 92 gasoline is calculated, the cost of Song PLUS 100,000 kilometers is 71,012 yuan; if the zero-run C11 is calculated according to the price of 1.45 yuan / kWh during the peak hour of the city's shared charging pile, the cost of its 100,000 kilometers (summer: 3:1 in winter) is 29,000 yuan. The difference between the two is only 42,000 yuan, far less than the 89,000 yuan in the table.
The current oil price has been affected by the Russo-Ukrainian war and hit the highest level in the past decade, and after a period of time, oil prices will return to normal levels, and the fuel cost of fuel vehicles is estimated to have fallen by 10,000 or 20,000.
And that's just the energy consumption of the new car. The battery of pure electric vehicles will age, and the increase in its internal resistance will inevitably lead to an increase in power consumption, and ultimately affect the life of the entire battery, just like your mobile phone, the endurance is quite long at the beginning, a charge a day is not a problem, but after using one or two years, a day will be two charges.
Of course, the internal combustion engine of the fuel vehicle also has the problem of aging, but as long as it is well maintained, the aging phenomenon will not be too obvious: my family's car, 100,000 kilometers, fuel consumption and new cars are no different. Seeing this, it is estimated that some people will question: "Fuel vehicles should be maintained regularly, electric vehicles do not need to be taken care of, how to calculate this?" ”
Now the maintenance of the oil truck is very convenient, you can directly make an appointment to pick up the car, no need to go to the store in person, no time cost.
This is actually not difficult to calculate, electric vehicles do not have engines and gearboxes, so it is not necessary to maintain frequently, as long as the air filter is replaced, the brake fluid is enough. This cost is not high, according to the zero run C11, 100,000 kilometers only need 2017 yuan is enough.
In contrast, the maintenance cost of the oil truck is slightly more expensive. According to half a year or 5,000 kilometers of maintenance once, Song PLUS within 100,000 kilometers needs to be maintained nearly 20 times, of which two small maintenance will be followed by a large maintenance, the price of small maintenance is about 400 yuan, and the cost of large maintenance is about 1200 yuan. In total, the 100,000-kilometer Song PLUS requires about 10,348 yuan of maintenance costs.
Expensive is a bit expensive, but far less exaggerated than in the table.
In total, the use cost of Song PLUS 100,000 kilometers is only 81,360 yuan, while the use cost of zero-run C111 million kilometers is 31,017 yuan, if you count the 22,720 yuan price difference when buying a car, the difference between the two is only 27,623 yuan, and the price difference does not seem to be as large as we think.
And that's not all! If you want to calculate the whole life cycle of the product, you must count the salvage rate.
As for the retention rate of pure trams, it is called a miserable one, not to mention 5 years and 100,000 kilometers, even if it is a pure tram for 3 years, the retention rate has dropped to about 50%, directly folded in half. The retention rate of fuel vehicles after 3 years can remain at about 60%.
If you calculate according to this, Song PLUS can still sell about 86,000 yuan after three years, with depreciation of 57,000 yuan; while zero run C11 can only sell about 90,000 yuan after three years, with depreciation of nearly 90,000 yuan. This is only a 3-year retention rate, if calculated by 5 years and 100,000 kilometers, this gap will only be larger, not smaller - it is said that the retention rate of pure electricity will drop to 30% by then, and autonomous fuel vehicles can still have a residual value of 40%.
Data source China Automobile Dealers Association
Therefore, if you want to calculate the full-cycle cost of the product, the fuel vehicle is not only not more expensive than pure electricity, but even cheaper.
This cost does not include the unquantifiable cost of time.
You know, if the pure tram does not have a home charge, it is necessary to go to the public charging pile to charge, time-consuming and laborious, if it encounters a peak, the loss is immeasurable. Our editorial department has organized two long-distance trips by pure tram, and each time, the pure electric group will be 1-2 hours slower than the fuel group.
Fuel vehicles have no trouble with replenishment, and most car owners will only stop by to refuel, and will not run specifically to refuel. And the gas station queue is still very rare, even if unfortunately encountered, no one will complain, because a car refueling ticket time is only five or six minutes. But electric cars are different, a charge takes more than 30 minutes, even if you meet a team of people, it is enough to make you cry bitterly.
I guess there will definitely be a message at the bottom of this article saying: "I have my own charging pile, the cost is low, and there is no so-called time cost, isn't it more convenient than your fuel car!?" Indeed, if all pure trams were used in this way, this article would have become meaningless.
But in fact, how big can the proportion of families with charging piles in the country go? Not to mention the installation of charging piles, there are only a few families that can have fixed parking spaces. Some time ago, there were media reports: pure electricity users in Beijing need to get up at four o'clock in the morning to grab charging piles.
This is the reality of society.
The pure tram is good, but in its current condition, it can only act as a second car for the family. And its selling point, should not involve the economy, after all, buying a car itself is a high-consumption behavior, if you want to save money, you do not have to buy a car, rent a car or taxi is obviously more economical.
Consumers buy a car, the picture is a degree of freedom to travel, enjoy the freedom to walk. This is difficult to satisfy you with a pure tram with a lower cost, so it can only be a supplement to the car market, the second car at home. At this time, more advanced enjoyment is the selling point it deserves.
Now there are more and more charging stations in the city, but unfortunately they are all occupied by online ride-hailing cars and taxis, and there is basically no time not to queue.
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(This article is the author's personal opinion only and does not represent the position of DearAuto.) )
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