As the new energy vehicle market becomes more and more hot, more and more people choose electric vehicles when buying cars.
However, for most people, the choice of new energy, in addition to electric vehicles and fuel vehicles feel different, the biggest reason is to save money.
After all, the price of oil is so expensive, but the price of electricity is cheap, and in the long run, the cost of spending on electric vehicles is obviously lower than that of fuel vehicles.
Ideally, this is true, but life cannot always be ideal, and once something means that a situation occurs, electric vehicles are not necessarily cheaper than fuel vehicles.
First of all, in terms of price, since last year, because of the international situation and other reasons, the price of raw materials upstream of electric vehicles has soared, which has led to many new energy vehicle companies that cannot resist this year and have risen prices.
Since January this year, nearly 20 new energy vehicle companies have announced price increases, involving nearly 40 models, ranging from 2,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan.
Rise less, such as BYD, up 3000-6000. Such as Xiaopeng, which has risen more, its models have risen by 10,000-20,000 yuan.
It is still unknown when the price of upstream raw materials will fall, and it is difficult to say whether new energy vehicle companies will reduce prices after the fall.
On the other hand, since this year, the state's subsidies for new energy vehicles have also declined, and the subsidies have been reduced by 30% compared with the original general, equivalent to several thousand yuan.
At the same time, there are rumors in the car circle that starting from next year, or will no longer exempt new energy vehicles from purchase tax, and then buy new energy vehicles may have to pay thousands to tens of thousands of dollars more than now.
Price increases, subsidies reductions, purchase taxes... If you add these together, then in the future, if you want to buy new energy vehicles, it may be much more expensive than now, at least it will cost tens of thousands of yuan.
Then when some electric vehicles are compared with some fuel vehicles, they may lose their previous price advantages.
In addition to the above price "accidents", the accidents encountered when driving electric vehicles may lead to greater cost expenditures.
After all, new energy vehicles have not developed as fuel vehicles for a long time, and related technologies are still improving, so the accident rate is difficult to say that it must be lower than that of fuel vehicles.
Just like Tesla at home and abroad will be exposed to the news of accidents every month, domestic Xiaopeng, Weilai and other new car-making forces, last year to this year, also exposed the safety accidents caused by assisted driving.
The key point is that in addition to the luxury car brand, as long as the traffic accident is not particularly serious, the cost of maintenance will not be too high.
But there are a lot of high-tech things on electric cars, and it may be expensive to touch them casually.
For example, high-tech accessories such as dual lidar, millimeter-wave radar, and perception cameras for electric vehicles, as long as they are damaged, tens of thousands of pieces have been adrift.
In addition, according to incomplete statistics, since the auto insurance reform in December 2021, the renewal premium of electric vehicles has generally increased higher than that of fuel vehicles.
That is to say, if your electric vehicle often has traffic accidents, even if it is a simple bump, the maintenance cost is higher than that of fuel vehicles.
In addition, from the perspective of car maintenance costs, electric vehicles may also be higher than fuel vehicles.
At present, the aging rate of electric vehicle batteries is higher than that of fuel vehicle engines, and the price of an electric vehicle battery is generally around 50,000.
Two people who bought electric vehicles and fuel vehicles in the same period, if the electric vehicle battery cannot be supported first and needs to be replaced, it is obviously higher than the cost of car maintenance than the fuel vehicle.
On the whole, in the ideal situation, electric vehicles save money than fuel vehicles, but if you are unlucky and encounter the above situations, then who is more expensive, but it is really not accurate.
Write at the end:
Although the probability of a person encountering all unexpected situations such as electric vehicle price increases, subsidies reduction, purchase tax, traffic accidents, premium increases, battery replacement, etc., it is still very likely that several of them will be encountered.
For owners who have already bought an electric car, taking good care of their own car is probably the best way to save money.
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