When it comes to the carbon neutrality goal, I believe that many friends will not be unfamiliar, and it is also a thing that many countries have been working on. As the world's largest automobile country, as of the end of March this year, the number of cars in the mainland has reached 402 million, of which as many as 307 million are fuel vehicles, which can be seen that the carbon emissions of the mainland are undoubtedly very amazing.
In this case, the continent is undoubtedly going to put the issue of carbon neutrality in a more important position. In order to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction, it is very critical to promote the transformation of the traditional automotive industry to the direction of new energy. In recent years, the mainland's new energy automobile industry has risen rapidly, and the state has also introduced many relevant support policies.
According to relevant data, as of the end of March this year, the number of new energy vehicles in the mainland was 8.915 million. Although the growth is not slow, it still accounts for only 2.9% of the total number of cars in the mainland.
The reason for this is that many car owners still choose traditional fuel vehicles because they are worried about the safety, performance, and endurance of new energy vehicles. In the final analysis, the attraction of new energy vehicles to the majority of car owners is not high enough.
During the two sessions not long ago, as a deputy to the mainland people's congress and the founder of the well-known car company Geely Group, Li Shufu put forward a proposal: comprehensively promote methanol vehicles.
For methanol cars, many friends may be a little unfamiliar, the following I will briefly introduce it to you. As the name suggests, it is a new energy vehicle that uses methanol as fuel.
It is understood that methanol is a low-carbon and high oxygen fuel with high combustion efficiency, clean emissions and renewable characteristics. And compared with other new energy and clean energy sources that are mainstream today, methanol is liquid at room temperature and pressure, so it has higher safety and convenience in the storage and transportation process.
According to relevant data, the carbon content of methanol fuel is only 1%. In other words, the pollution caused by methanol vehicle firing can be basically ignored, which can effectively promote the realization of the continent's carbon neutrality goal.
Over the years, methanol has become a new type of clean energy recognized in the global new energy vehicle industry, and is an important direction in the future development of new energy vehicles. Based on this, Li Shufu will suggest that the state fully promote methanol vehicles.
So if you look at it from the perspective of the owner, does methanol car also have advantages? The answer is yes, it is reported that the cost of methanol cars per kilometer is as low as two cents, this level is even lower than electric vehicles, and it only takes 3 minutes to fill up, and it can save owners a lot of charging time.
Combined with the above factors, methanol vehicles seem to be the best choice to replace fuel vehicles. Seeing that there may be friends here will feel strange, if methanol cars are really so good, why is the mainstream of the world still electric energy vehicles, and the mainland has not been promoted for a long time?
In fact, the mainland has long had relevant actions. From 2012 to 2018, the relevant departments of the mainland organized a large-scale pilot operation project of methanol vehicles, which fully verified the environmental protection, applicability and reliability of methanol fuel vehicles. And in the "14th Five-Year Plan" Industrial Green Development Plan, methanol vehicles have also been officially included in the scope of green products.
From this point of view, methanol vehicles have still been recognized, so it is natural to recommend a comprehensive promotion. But what cannot be ignored is that methanol vehicles still have some important problems to solve. For example, although methanol has many advantages, it also has a certain degree of toxicity and corrosiveness. If you want to fully promote the use, you still need the support of relevant policies and facilities and the popularization of knowledge to ensure the reasonable and safe use of the general public.
And the main reason why many car owners do not choose new energy vehicles is that they cannot keep up with the worry about endurance, although methanol cars are better than electric vehicles, but they are still not as good as traditional fuel vehicles.
Therefore, on the whole, methanol vehicles still have a lot of room for improvement and progress. When all aspects of it tend to mature, I believe it is time for methanol vehicles to be fully promoted in the mainland.