Lying in the nest again? There is no charging pile again? Talking about the anxiety of electric vehicle range from the Spring Festival, how exaggerated?

Lying on the ground, right?

Can't find a place to charge, right?

Stuck on the road, right?

Do you know the benefits of fuel vehicles?

You know how unreliable electric cars are, right?

If you are a new energy vehicle owner, then on the way back to the city during this Spring Festival, you will definitely hear taunts like this.

"Black electric vehicles" are a regular "stubborn disease" in the current Chinese auto market, and the symptoms are more obvious every holiday.

During this year's Spring Festival holiday, there was also an X incident in Henan, Hubei and other places where heavy snow caused high-speed blockage, and new energy vehicles looked more worthy of "black".

So, are new energy vehicles really so unreliable?

1. Do new energy vehicles really have "range anxiety"?

Do new energy vehicles have range anxiety?

Of course!

Needless to say, most of the high-speed service areas have gas stations, and you can even find gas stations in the no-man's land of Lop Nur, and the charging pile operators are still far from this level despite their efforts.

China's Spring Festival travel is the world's largest periodic migration, and the number of people moving during the Spring Festival is expected to reach 9 billion in 2024, many of whom have crossed thousands of miles in just a few days.

At present, high-end electric vehicles, ideally with a range of more than 700 kilometers, are obviously insufficient.

In fact, most fuel vehicles can't run 1,000 kilometers with a tank of fuel, but the key is that fuel vehicles refuel too quickly, a matter of a few minutes, and electric vehicle charging, even if fast charging is generally about 30 minutes.

During the Spring Festival when traffic breaks out, this 30-minute delay may cause you to return home 30 hours late.

And this is still in places where there are charging piles, many remote areas, but even the charging piles have not been rolled out.

Why is it that when the Spring Festival arrives, the discussion about "unreliable electric vehicles" in the society will explode?

The reason is very simple, the more extreme car environment of the Spring Festival transportation shows the shortcomings of difficult and slow charging of electric vehicles.

2. How does battery life anxiety occur?

Range anxiety is one of the main problems faced by new energy vehicles.

This is actually very easy to understand, the main purpose of the car is to travel, no matter how high the degree of intelligence, how comfortable it is to sit in, you can't run in vain.

The battery life of new energy vehicles is mainly determined by the battery!

To put it simply, the bigger the battery, the farther it can go. This is the same as the range of a gasoline car, how far you can go depends on how big your fuel tank is.

It is impossible for a small car to fit into a large 80L fuel tank, and in the same way, a small electric car can carry a certain upper limit on the battery capacity, which is determined by the physical characteristics of the car.

Constantly expanding battery capacity, or improving chemistry to increase range, is not realistic in the short term. The best way to solve the problem of charging electric vehicles is to work on charging infrastructure.

But the meal has to be eaten bite by bite, and the construction of charging infrastructure is not something that happens overnight.

In addition to the lack of quantity, there are also some commercial problems with the construction of charging infrastructure.

For example, how can we ensure that there is no traffic jam at high speed during the Spring Festival?

Quite simply, expand all highways in the country into 12 lanes in both directions, but the cost is staggering.

Electric vehicle electricity consumption during the Spring Festival or other holidays has obvious tidal characteristics, it only breaks out within a specific time, and the traffic flow during the vast majority of the year is not so large, even if the site of the high-speed service area is sufficient, the charging pile operator cannot build charging piles in accordance with the standards of the Spring Festival, because that will lead to a large number of charging piles idle.

Therefore, the charging pile is not enough, and it can only be solved slowly.

If nothing else, in the Spring Festival in 2025, the range anxiety of electric vehicles will still exist.

3. Are new energy vehicles really unreliable?

Because of the lack of mileage, it is judged that new energy vehicles are unreliable, which is the basic logic of many people who despise electric vehicles.

But does this logic really hold?

First of all, there is no doubt that the comprehensive performance of new energy vehicles far exceeds that of fuel vehicles of the same level.

Lower car cost, high degree of intelligence, rich entertainment functions, these fuel vehicles do not have, mileage, is only one of many performance indicators.

Secondly, is the problem of insufficient cruising range really so exaggerated?

In fact, if you think about it carefully, is there anything you don't feel nervous about during the Spring Festival?

Not only are there not enough charging piles, but also airplanes and high-speed rail, and when you travel during the Spring Festival, you will find that there are not enough hotel rooms.

And what about in normal times?

According to a survey report released by an authoritative organization in Shanghai, the average commuting distance of Shanghai residents in the city is about 9.5km, and when the commuting distance exceeds 7km, most people will choose rail transit.

At present, the BYD Seagull, which is priced at more than 70,000 yuan, has a cruising range of 305km, assuming that the user's daily car mileage is 50 km, it can basically meet the needs of a week's car.

In other words, the current mainstream electric vehicles can cover most of the daily car scenarios.

If you need to travel across provinces and cities, it may be a bit troublesome, but the charging infrastructure is constantly expanding, and there will be fewer and fewer cases where you want to charge but can't find a charging pile.

The real trouble is that the existing charging infrastructure cannot meet the urgent demand for electricity during the sudden, short-term congestion period, for example, if you have an urgent business and need to drive in the middle of the night, and your car happens to be out of power, the charging time of about 30 minutes is too long.

However, this situation is gradually alleviating, starting in 2023, 800V high-voltage fast charging is rapidly popularized, and mainstream models such as Xpeng G9 and Wenjie M7 can already make up 200 kilometers in 5 minutes, and with the increase in charging speed, the anxiety about battery life will be greatly alleviated.

More importantly, pure electric models are only a kind of new energy vehicles, if users really often have temporary emergency vehicles, high-frequency cross-city and cross-provincial car needs, plug-in hybrid models and extended-range electric models are also good choices.

During the Spring Festival, there are not enough charging piles, or there are no charging piles on the Northwest Ring Road, which cannot be evidence that new energy vehicles are unreliable, because the Spring Festival is only once a year, and not everyone has to go to the Northwest Ring Road. New energy vehicles can only meet the needs of the public first.

4. Will the trend of new energy change?

If you pay attention, you will find that every New Year's holiday, there will be a large number of voices questioning electric vehicles, May Day, Eleventh, Spring Festival and other holidays, various media will focus on producing a number of articles questioning electric vehicles.

But these are the problems that will inevitably arise in the development of new energy vehicles!

What is little known is that in the early days of the development of the automobile industry, car owners had to bring their own toolboxes in the car, and the cars at that time were lying on their stomachs from time to time and needed to be repaired by the car owners themselves.

Really getting rid of this kind of thing, that is, after the Ford Model T brought the trend of assembly line production.

Moreover, the gas station, which is very convenient now, did not fall from the sky, but was also improved step by step.

According to the data of the Passenger Association, the domestic sales of new energy in January 2024 will reach 682,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 76.2%.

If you really have a grudge against electric vehicles, or are reluctant to give up on gasoline vehicles, it is actually very simple, fuel vehicles are not banned in China.

Conclusion:

If nothing else, after the end of the Spring Festival, the unreliable rhetoric about electric vehicles will disappear for a while, and there will be a resurgence during the Qingming or May Day holidays, but the trend of the transformation of the automobile market to new energy will not change. Think about it, how many people will decide which car to buy because of a Spring Festival?