With the increase of income, modern people's pursuit of life is getting higher and higher. The most typical manifestation is that every family has bought a car, and families with better economic conditions even own several cars. With a car, it is much more convenient to travel, especially on windy and rainy days, or when there is a need to go out.
Rising oil prices have plagued car owners
Unexpectedly for the majority of car owners, since last year, domestic oil prices have been rising, and by March this year, the unit price of No. 92 and No. 95 gasoline has exceeded the 9 yuan mark. Many car owners complained that they continued to rise and soon could not afford to drive. Nowadays, it takes hundreds to fill a tank of No. 95 gasoline, and if you travel frequently by car, you will have to pay nearly a thousand yuan a month for refueling. Thinking about it, some car owners decide to reduce the frequency of driving, or simply switch to battery cars and give up driving before the oil price falls. Battery cars are more flexible than cars and can also save parking fees. You can go to the road to see, the scale of travel using battery cars continues to grow.
Who expected, at the same time as the oil price rose, the price of the battery car also increased, and the increase range was 200-1000 yuan. This news can be difficult for many car owners, everyone can't help but wonder what is the reason for the price increase of the battery car?
The reason for the increase in the price of battery cars
According to the announcement released by The Maverick Electric Vehicle Company, the price increase of the battery car is due to the increase in the price of upstream raw materials, mainly lithium batteries, resulting in an increase in production and manufacturing costs. In order to protect profit margins, the company can only raise the price of products. The rise in lithium battery prices has been around for years. At the beginning of last year, the price of lithium carbonate was 50,000 per ton, but now it has risen to 450,000 per ton, a 9-fold increase.
In recent years, the domestic vigorous promotion of the new energy vehicle market has led to an increase in demand, but the supply of lithium batteries cannot be greatly improved in the short term. Lithium mines have a long mining timeline and take time to expand production capacity. But the downstream companies that continue to enter the industry can not give the upstream so much time, under the shortage of supply, lithium battery prices will continue to rise.
Seeing that oil prices and battery car prices are rising, some people have proposed that new energy vehicles can be bought, new energy vehicles only need to be charged, and the cost of charging is not high. Remember when oil prices rose, many netizens left online messages saying that they envied new energy vehicle owners.
In fact, everything is good or bad, and new energy vehicles are certainly low in charging costs, but there are also some drawbacks. For example, when traveling long distances, it is troublesome to encounter traffic jams, in case the electricity is exhausted, there is no charging pile nearby, you can only call a trailer. And in the high-speed service area, the charging piles have to be queued up, which is very delayed. Therefore, many people will propose that if there is often a need for long-distance travel, it is recommended not to buy new energy vehicles.
In addition, new energy vehicles have not yet improved insurance regulations, and the insurance policy for automobiles is still used. But in fact, there are many differences between the two models, and the insurance regulations cannot be 100% applicable. Not only car owners are dissatisfied, but also insurance companies, because many new energy vehicle parts loss standards are not clear, insurance companies can not make accurate payments, and there may be losses.
Buying a gasoline car or a new energy vehicle depends on its own needs. If it is only opened in the city, it is rare to go on the high speed, new energy vehicles are a good choice, and I believe that the insurance policy will continue to improve in the later stage. Of course, gasoline owners do not have to be discouraged, oil prices will not rise beyond the scope of everyone's economic situation, if so, the government will not sit idly by.