On April 10, WEIO officially announced that from May 10, the starting price of ES8, ES6 and EC6 models will be raised by 10,000 yuan.
Prices! It has become the main theme of the new energy vehicle industry in 2022, and the price increase storm is mainly affected by the rise in raw material prices and the impact of the new crown epidemic, coupled with the decline of subsidies for new energy vehicles.
Just before Weilai officially announced the price increase, Tesla, BYD, Xiaopeng, Weima, Nezha Automobile, Zero-run Car and other car companies have increased prices. However, in the face of rising prices, the sales volume of new energy vehicles has shown a sharp upward trend, on April 11, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (hereinafter referred to as "Caucus") released data showing that the production and sales of automobiles in March were 2.241 million and 2.234 million units, an increase of 23.4% and 28.4% month-on-month, down 9.1% and 11.7% year-on-year, of which the production and sales of new energy vehicles continued to maintain a rapid growth momentum month-on-month and year-on-year, with a market share of 21.7%.
New energy vehicles are undoubtedly the "popular fried chicken" in these years, in the face of new energy vehicles with longer and longer endurance, more and more scientific and technological content, and more and more convenient charging piles, many car owners and licensed people are eager to try new energy vehicles, but how to understand in depth has become a major problem.
l Car rental is empowered, and deep self-driving is sought after
Car rental, which has always been defined as a temporary car, has always played the role of "firefighter", and will only be remembered in scenes such as off-site business trips, license plate number restrictions, and short-term rental transportation. However, with the continuous reform and innovation of the car rental business, car rental has also been re-empowered, and a new trick has been played by the younger generation of consumers.
Taking the Wukong car rental platform as an example, in order to vigorously promote green and low-carbon travel, Wukong Travel Group will create a new sub-brand in 2021 - Bailong Ma Zhixing, which will continue to deepen its cultivation from multiple aspects such as vehicle collection, scooter product design, channel operation, after-sales maintenance, and in-depth test driving, and focus on the leasing business services of new energy vehicles to a considerable extent. It has nearly 10,000 new energy vehicles such as Weilai, Tesla, Xiaopeng, Ideal, BYD, and Volkswagen ID series, of which more than 2,000 are Volkswagen ID series and Tesla.
In the face of such a convenient service, Xiao Li after 90 chose to deeply test drive a new energy vehicle through Wukong Car Rental, and in the one-week use time, he became a new energy vehicle owner for a week through a full range of experiences such as commuting to work, self-driving adventure, charging, etc., and chose to buy the same model after the test drive.
The future of green mobility is our future
On September 22, 2020, the mainland proposed at the United Nations General Assembly that carbon dioxide emissions should strive to "peak" by 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. According to relevant reports, carbon emissions in the road transportation sector, which is mainly automobiles, account for more than 8% of China's total carbon emissions. The automobile has become the "main force" of emissions, how to effectively control and supervise it?
car rental! It becomes the key form. The car rental industry itself is a "sharing economy", which increases the utilization rate of vehicles, reduces the surplus of vehicles, promotes the sharing of social resources, and builds a resource-saving society.
According to big data statistics, "for every car bought, an average of 1 fixed parking space plus 0.3 public parking spaces is required, and the future car ownership in the mainland may reach 400 million, that is, 500 million parking spaces are needed, and each parking space covers an average area of 15 square meters..." If private idle vehicles are reduced and the frequency of car rental use is increased, it will not only reduce the pollution caused by vehicle production, but also greatly reduce the waste of land resources.
At present, Wukong Travel covers 460+ cities across the country, with 80,000 service outlets, 6,000+ car rental types, more than 210,000 online rentable vehicles, and 22 million car rental users, and will unite with more like-minded partner companies in the future to continue to increase the leasing of new energy vehicles, create a dream car life together, lead a new travel ecology, and will continue to shoulder the mission, exert its own advantages to help rural revitalization and promote common prosperity.