Is it reasonable for hybrid models to be banned from using charging piles just because of slow charging?

Owners of plug-in hybrid vehicles without piles may need to be concerned about the problem of grabbing public piles with pure electricity in the future.

Recently, many charging stations have begun to prohibit the charging of hybrid models, on the grounds that they charge too slowly, or even take up a day, affecting many pure electric vehicles can not be charged, in the final analysis, it is still a conflict of interest.

First, the small profit of insertion

Once in 2018, the plug-in hybrid experience was relatively fragmented, and the characteristics of electricity, one dragon, no electricity and one worm forced consumers to have only two extreme use scenarios, the first is to charge every day when the tram is driven, less than a last resort to use oil, the second is that there is no blue card can only buy a green card plug-in mixed as an oil car to drive.

The former has to endure the short range of plug-in hybrid cars, and the latter has to spend more money on the battery, and can only buy low-cost plug-in hybrids with similar product power and oil vehicles, refer to BMW 5 Series PHEVs.

With the technological development and market penetration of plug-in hybrid and pure electric, the fuel consumption of plug-in hybrid loss has improved significantly, the price has decreased, and there are more charging piles to charge, refer to Song plusDMi and ideal L8.

In 2023, consumers will no longer be based on the above two points, but will usually use more electricity in the city to save money, and on the highway, they can not only use more electricity to save money, but also use oil to open normally.

Naturally, although the fuel consumption of many plug-in hybrid vehicles is slightly lower than that of fuel vehicles of the same level, plug-in hybrid owners can still charge without refueling for the sake of saving money.

Second, the impact of pure electric vehicles

On the other hand, pure electric products have finally rolled up the battery life and charging speed, and the energy replenishment effect is much closer to the fuel vehicle.

Suddenly found that the charging queue phenomenon still restricts the experience of pure electricity, especially unbearable, the pure electric car is hard to pluck up courage / do have something to go at a high speed, but often encounter a lot of charging slowly and leisurely plug-in hybrid cars occupy the charging pile.

This causes experience damage such as difficulty in finding pure electric piles and long queuing times.

And unlike plug-in hybrids, pure electric models can not have refueling emergency means, can only wait.

Third, what to do with the charging pile operator

At present, the main charge of the charging pile is still based on the charging degree, from the operator's point of view, the pure electric vehicle with large charging power, large battery and short charging time is a large customer, and a few more are conducive to quickly recovering the cost and achieving profitability.

In contrast, plug-in hybrid vehicles with small charging power, small batteries and long charging time are small customers and have relatively low yields.

From the perspective of profit maximization, plug-in hybrid vehicles are a round-up, once there is pure electricity want to charge, the best way is to take advantage of its loss to other operators, immediately drive away the plug-in hybrid car that is already very high and the charging speed is further reduced, and bring in the pure electric large customers.

Of course, doing so is bound to attract complaints from hybrid owners.

The solutions of the second gear are: (1) differential pricing, which balances the demand for pure electricity and plug-in hybrid with the help of methods such as the length of time occupied by the charging process, the time still occupied after being fully charged, differentiated electricity charges during peak and valley periods, subsidy coupons for queuing time, and auction locations; (2) It is forbidden to plug and mix charging.

At first glance, (1) is a bit complicated but the overall benefit should be higher, and it should be possible to beat the one-size-fits-all model (2).

However, when it comes to the problem of supply and demand regulating prices, I personally feel that (2) may be the optimal solution at present.

Where there is a price difference, there is commerce, and the state's machinery for regulating grain, train tickets, and other price stability is cumbersome and rigid, but it is always effective.

Allowing price fluctuations such as power storage scalpers, futures, operator transactions, and big data to kill maturity enter the market, the risk is greater, layer by layer, and the final price wool is likely to be out of consumers.

Plug-in hybrid body for both the technical dividend of pure electric market expansion, but also eat the infrastructure dividend of charging pile expansion, neither than fuel vehicle cost, but also charging means to reduce the cost, neither rely on pile can quickly enter the sinking market, but also have the green brand brought by the tax exemption and subsidy policy of the outlet category, but now with pure electric pile, affecting the state of pure electric owners and charging operators is indeed not a long-term solution, which is very similar to the previous plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles together to criticize fuel vehicles occupy charging parking spaces.

It is not ruled out that more restrictions on plug-in and hybrid charging, plug-in and hybrid differential pricing and other means will be expanded.

For consumers who really have no piles, it is difficult to grab public piles, and they like the electric experience, don't spend too much battery money, you may wish to buy a short-life plug-in hybrid as a gasoline-electric hybrid, or simply choose a gasoline-electric hybrid.