All of you who drive trams have noticed that charging trams is really getting more and more expensive.
A few days ago, Brother Neck and his colleagues in the department went out to build a team building and run a mountain, and a Polestar owner was anxious about his battery life and had to recharge. I found a charging station of the State Grid and charged it for thirty yuan!
As a result, the account balance bottomed out in 18 minutes. Charge it with 20 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which is five cents per kilowatt-hour.
If you want to fully charge his 70-degree battery, you have to pay 100 yuan less! If you change to a model with a 100-degree battery, it will be more than 100 yuan on a single charge.
Is it expensive? It's too expensive.
A few years ago, when trams were first popularized, they were less than fifty fully charged. But now, the argument that "trams save fuel but don't save money" has gradually increased.
If you search Xiaohongshu casually, you can see a lot of car owners who complain that charging is too expensive.
Let's just say, why has it only been two or three years, and the price of electric car charging has risen like a rocket?
A counterintuitive fact is that the main reason why electricity bills look so expensive now is because the previous electricity bills were a little too cheap.
As we all know, the electricity fee of the charging pile actually contains two parts, one is the electricity fee itself, and the other is the service fee for the charging station operator.
However, it is not as complicated as the price of oil, in addition to gasoline and gas station profits, there are various taxes and fees such as the city maintenance and construction tax, that is, you have to pay the corresponding fee for the use of public transportation facilities.
In the past few years, because of the encouragement of the development of the new energy industry, many policies have been tilted towards electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles. The various taxes that should have been added to the electricity bill have not been added for the time being.
When the new energy vehicle industry gradually matures, these preferential policies will gradually decline until they are cancelled. Adding various taxes and fees to the electricity bill is likely to be a matter of time.
Of course, compared with this kind of price increase that may take effect for a while, the soaring electricity prices that we can feel now are more because the profit pressure of charging pile service providers has begun to increase.
Investing in charging piles, in fact, is a real heavy asset project, a brother and neck brother who have invested in the charging station project said that the common kind of charging stations with ten charging piles on the roadside, all kinds of investment add up to seven or eight hundred thousand.
But just like the discounts offered by food delivery platforms and ride-hailing apps at the beginning, in order to compete with other charging platforms, they can only roll low prices.
Many companies find that the little service fee they charge can't cover the cost of maintaining their operations.
As a result, many charging companies began to increase their income by increasing charging service fees. Like before, the charging service fee for special calls was about 0.4 yuan per kilowatt-hour, and now it has risen to about 0.6 yuan.
This also reduced the annual loss of Special Calls from more than 100 million in 2019 to 26 million in 2022, with a significant effect.
Of course, it also makes our charging costs soar...
Therefore, Brother Neck's point of view has always been that if you want to buy a new energy vehicle at this stage, it is best to get a parking space and install your own home charging pile.
Brother Neck installed a home charger in Hangzhou, which is really convenient.
As long as you plug the charging gun into the car when you get home from work, and unplug it when you go to work, you will be a fully charged hero.
Some people say, but the home charging power is too small? Friends, this is not a problem in the face of cheap and trouble-free.
As we all know, as long as you choose the peak and valley electricity price for billing, the price of charging in the middle of the night will be half cheaper than that during the day.
There is no service charge for less than three cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity, and a full time is at most ten or twenty yuan, and we don't have to freeze with the outside for a night, and charge it slowly.
However, the not-so-good news is that many first-line new power brands, such as Tesla, Zeekr, and NIO, will not give away home charging piles when buying a car.
If you want, you can either add money to buy the original, or buy a third-party from a certain treasure and PDD.
But to be honest, when Brother Neck saw the search results of a certain treasure, I was really a head and two big. Not to mention the brand, the types and parameters of the pile are also full of tricks.
Many of the tram owners around me were like me, and they were going to save some money, but when they saw this colorful search page, they said they couldn't get started...
Why? I don't know how to choose!
Sometimes I think, why doesn't Nanfu, which has made batteries for so many years, not make power batteries, and why don't bulls who make such a professional electrical connection do not engage in home charging piles!
In this way, car owners don't have to worry about which one is safe, and they can place an order directly on Taobao after buying the car.
As a result, a colleague told me that Bull had actually entered the charging pile industry a long time ago, and its reputation was very good, and it even won awards abroad.
I checked, and it was indeed me out.
A few days ago, the American International Consumer Electronics Show, which is often referred to as the Spring Festival Gala of Science and Technology, opened in Las Vegas, USA.
At this exhibition, which gathers the world's top technology products, the bull - yes, the bull that everyone has in their homes, not only set up a booth with a color thief sci-fi inside, but also looks like this:
It also launched a new flagship product of the Bull home charging pile: Wuji.
Not to mention, it is indeed much better than the home charging piles of many car companies now.
How good is this pile, just look at the reputation of the bull who went to sea to participate in the exhibition.
The American IDG, that is, the International Data Group's "Global Top Brands" award, Bull won. The organizing committee of the award directly stated at the award ceremony:
As an "expert in safe electricity use", Bull has achieved a brand grand occasion of "10 Chinese households, 7 households with bull" in the Chinese market. The new home charging pile will lead car charging into the intelligent experience of visual interaction and non-inductive charging. "
The Associated Press, the largest and most authoritative news agency in the United States, as well as Agence France-Presse, Ansa News, Germany's Munich Neue Zeitung, Spain's Efe News Agency and other authoritative media at home and abroad have said: "Bull is the representative of the outstanding level of China's new energy industry. ”
And just look at the foot traffic of the bull booth at CES, you can see that it is purely from domestic fire to foreign countries...
The reason why this new product named Wuji has received so much attention and praise is mainly because in terms of technology and configuration, it has almost all the configurations that can be stuffed into the home charging pile.
First of all, the infinity is available in three power specifications: 7kW, 11kW and 21 kW, which can adapt to the power limits of almost all cities in China.
For example, Brother Neck is in Hangzhou, and now I can only apply for a 7kW meter, so I can only buy the lowest power version to save waste.
And the safety configuration that Bull has always been the main focus of, Wuji is basically round.
For example, it has 9 layers of safety protection design, over-voltage / over-current / over-temperature / overcharge / lightning protection / leakage / waterproof and dustproof / under-voltage / grounding detection, these common but very dangerous situations, Wuji can handle them properly.
Even the shell material is flame retardant, and car owners no longer have to worry about the frequent charging pile fires.
In order to achieve this super safety level, the bull used 78 super rigorous tests when testing Wuji, such as 50 °C high temperature resistance, -20 °C extreme cold resistance, rain, sand and even crushing are used.
I'm not even afraid of rolling the pile.,I really don't know what to worry about.。。。
However, one thing to say, compared to the Bull's already very reassuring security, my favorite point of Wuji is the control logic of its touch screen.
Because most of today's home charging piles, there are not many buttons to operate, and most of the functions can only be realized through the APP. But in order to use the home charging pile, you have to take out your mobile phone to operate for half a day, and it is possible that the basement signal is not good, so I feel a little troublesome.
And Bull added a touch screen with the same proportion as the mobile phone screen on Wuji, and you can see the same charging information as on the APP. Basic information such as the battery level of the car, the charging time, and the start and stop charging can be completed without taking out the mobile phone.
Very detailed, loved it.
And what you may not know is that before the launch of Wuji, Bull has actually grown up in the field of new energy charging for several years.
In 2021, Bull began to launch car charging products such as charging guns and charging piles. In just one year, these products have exploded by a factor of 3.
According to the data of Shangpu Consulting, the sales volume of Bull ranks among the three major segments of new energy vehicle self-use charging piles, AC charging piles and hanging charging piles in the country.
Now, Bull has a variety of products, including high-power charging guns, AC piles for A00-class models, and DC charging piles that support flexible customization of 20kW ~ 240kW full-power ranges, basically realizing full coverage from low-power to high-power charging products.
It can be said that no matter what kind of charging requirements you have, you can almost find the corresponding bull products.
At this CES in Las Vegas, we also interviewed Xie Weiwei, vice president and general manager of the new energy division of Bull Group.
Mr. Xie said that with the gradual maturity of the new energy vehicle and charging pile market, users' demand for charging piles is becoming more and more personalized.
And now the bull is also trying to integrate its own safety genes into this trend.
When it comes to safe use of electricity, bulls come to mind. Now, we are integrating the core technology of this into our car charging products. In the field of charging piles and charging guns, Bull has achieved 11 technical dimensions including electromechanical control technology, heat dissipation technology, and high-voltage connection technology, and has applied for more than 40 patents and software copyrights.
Our charging pile products are designed with the user experience in mind. Like compatibility, it can adapt to mainstream models on the market, and you don't need to change charging piles for new cars in the future. In terms of appearance, it is full of science and technology, simple and atmospheric, and it is more versatile with the style of the car. ”
According to Mr. Xie's introduction, there will be more and more bull charging products that are suitable for more scenarios and models in the future.
On the one hand, we solve the problem of personal private charging, and on the other hand, we assist dealers, governments, enterprises and institutions to establish charging stations. There are also industrial and commercial energy storage, outdoor power products, and photovoltaic products are under development.
Eventually, Bull Group will form an integrated business structure of 'optical storage and charging' to explore the possibility of more charging forms and actively contribute to the transformation of the global energy structure." ”
Looking at it this way, after 10 households use bulls for 7 households, 10 new energy vehicles and 7 use bulls to charge piles, can we also look forward to it?
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