Many people say that it is inconvenient for the tram to run at high speed, it is a waste of time to charge, and it is also anxious about battery life. But only those who have tried it know what the train is like, and whether it is suitable for high-speed road trips.
- Tram travel is more cost-effective
During the third day of March, my friend's department was disbanded, and everyone lost tens of thousands, so everyone thought that they were thinking about finding a job first, and took advantage of the March 3rd high-speed self-driving tour to Guizhou without traffic jams. However, since the highway is not free, if you drive a gas car, you have to pay not only tolls, but also gas. I have driven a fuel truck for 12 years, and I know very well that the fuel cost of the oil truck running at high speed is half of the toll fee of the highway, and the fuel cost is 5 cents per kilometer, and the high-speed toll is about 5 cents. For example, we go to Guizhou for more than 790 kilometers, in fact, it is 800 kilometers, and the toll and fuel cost add up to 1,000, but it is different to drive a tram, which can at least help you save a sum of fuel costs.
When I was on a business trip before, I drove more than 1,400 kilometers to Sichuan, basically the fuel cost plus the toll ETC discount will be more than 1,300, and during the New Year's holiday, my brother-in-law drove the tram to take this road back to his hometown, but only a small amount of charging fees and tolls can be used, which is very money-saving. Not to mention the difficulties and troubles in all aspects of tram charging, if you drive a tram for a road trip, you can save a lot of money on fuel alone, which is one of its great advantages. And now the trams are generally reducing prices, Xiaopeng's trams have dropped to more than 140,000, the current trams are not more expensive than oil cars, to a certain extent, there is no problem of saving fuel or money.
- The problem of charging for self-driving trips is not as serious as imagined
Many people think that the biggest problem with driving a tram is the battery life, and the tram with a range of 500 kilometers can only run 300 kilometers on the high speed, and it is better if you drive a little harder. Even if there is no need to queue up for charging, the charging of the tram itself is slower than that of the gas car, and it is a waste of time to enter the service area every once in a while and wait for half an hour to charge. But the reality is that as long as it's not a holiday, the problem of charging at high speed is really not as serious as everyone thinks.
We go to Guizhou to play, drive 300 kilometers at least 2 and a half hours, at this time everyone is tired, although not all of the 5 people in the car want to go to the service area to the toilet, but basically every 2 hours or so want to enter the service area, even if it is to make up the toilet, driving is also tired, to go in to stretch out. Basically, the first time you enter the service area is to go to the charging pile to park and plug in the electricity, and then buy snacks to buy snacks, to go to the toilet to go to the toilet, and when everyone is done and return to the car, it is almost 10 or 20 minutes have passed, and a few words of chatting outside the car are basically charged to 80%, and you can continue to hurry.
My brother-in-law used to drive the old LaCrosse and came back from Sichuan for a day and a night, and now he also returns in a day and a night when he drives the BYD Han. To tell you the truth, the tram does take an extra three to five hours, but because it is half an hour and half an hour in the service area each time, you will arrive at your destination before you know it, which is different from the feeling of waiting in place for three or five hours in one place.
- The disadvantage of the self-drive tram is the problem of charging and battery life
If the tram is driven at a speed of 100 to 110 on the highway, the battery life will be discounted by 6, and if you don't want to enter the service area frequently, you really can't keep driving at a speed of 120 for a long time. But there is no such problem in the oil truck, after the large displacement of the oil truck on the highway, driving 120 people just reached the economic speed, and the delay time on the road is much less than that of the tram.
Although the problem of charging trams and other trams is not as serious as imagined, some trams do have the situation of grabbing electricity and not winning others. Originally, 60KW fast charging, people plugged the charging gun into your speed of 30KW, this phenomenon really exists in the actual use of the car. You can't always have a car charging when the charging pile in the service area is empty, right? Although many places are still relatively empty now, it will be different if there are more trams in a few years.
In general, there is no problem with self-driving tram tours, most places have charging piles, there are charging piles in a small county in our hometown, and there are fixed charging stations on roads like 318 National Highway. If you are afraid of charging difficulties, you don't have to be afraid, but charging and finding charging piles will indeed waste some time, and if you feel that this time is wasted or inconvenient, then you can only drive a gas car.