The wheels are rolling forward, and the new energy market has also brought a lot of "surprises".
Yesterday, the extended-range car was ridiculed for its "simple structure and lack of technology" and became the target of public criticism. In a blink of an eye, the prestige of the extended-range car has been greatly enhanced, surpassing pure electric and plug-in hybrid, and becoming the "new favorite" of the auto market.
Many car companies have even figured it out, but the sales volume is not enough, and the range is extended to make up.
This is admirable, 2 years ago, those who bought extended range under pressure really had a vision.
However, some people said that many old drivers advised everyone not to buy extended-range cars, which may not be unreasonable.
In particular, these three exhortations are still effective and very true.
The first piece of advice is that if you want to save money, don't buy an extended range
The extended-range car was ridiculed for being "no technology" at the beginning, but it makes sense to think about it from another angle.
At the beginning, car companies only used the concept of "cheap cars" to treat range extensions, and the idea was:
A car claims to be a "new energy", but it is neither fuel-efficient nor cheap, isn't it "funny".
Although the range extension is popular now, it does not mean that this view is wrong.
Because if you want to save money, you just wait until the sky is old, and it is still not appropriate to increase the range.
First of all, look at the price of mainstream range extender cars, which are generally 20-400,000 yuan, and the cheaper dark blue S7 is also 140,000 yuan.
Obviously, this thing was not created for the sake of "affordability" at all.
Looking at energy consumption, the M7 feeds 7.4 liters, the ideal L7 feeds 7.4 liters, the ideal L8 feeds 7.5 liters, and the ideal L9 feeds 7.6 liters.
A comparison of the same level of Highlander, fuel consumption of 5.82 liters. Needless to say, its economy has been demonstrated.
Secondly, the technology of the extended-range vehicle is simple, but the "structure" is not simple.
The parallel architecture of "oil and electricity" looks very energetic, and it also brings higher maintenance costs.
On the one hand, it is necessary to change the oil and filter like a fuel vehicle. On the other hand, it is necessary to check the three batteries and motors like the train. It may be said that it is equivalent to raising two cars at one time. This is also the reason why the maintenance cost of range extender/plug-in hybrid is higher than that of fuel/pure electric.
Therefore, the extended-range car pleases those local tyrant car owners, and the cost is not excessive, but it is drizzle, but for ordinary car owners like us, it is a downpour.
Of course, some people say that the extended range is "oil and electricity", only using electricity, not as saving as pure electricity.
This is also very "funny", in this way, the extended range will not become a pure electric car with a range of 200 kilometers, why not just buy a Hongguang MINI with more than 20,000 yuan.
Moreover, "electric" is not the core charm of range extension, and in most use scenarios, it will only increase the trouble.
This is not nonsense, so let's analyze this below.
The second admonition is that there is no need to buy a range extension for a short commute
The charm of range extension lies in the electric drive, not in the "electric".
Installing a large battery is a trend that only exists this year, and it is easy to cause confusion in thinking that the extended range is perfect.
In actual scenarios, for example, 90% of car owners are usually short-distance trips, and extended-range car owners are no exception, and the data shows that the pure electric driving time is generally about 85%.
In this way, the large battery seems to be very energetic and powerful. Not really.
To put it bluntly, it is still the same sentence, the range extension is not born for the economy to save fuel.
Imagine, I spent three and a half million yuan to buy an extended range, and I only studied how to open it every day to save a little. It's like buying a Bugatti and carrying it on your own every day to save fuel, which is an exaggeration but a very apt statement.
The charm of extended range can not be reflected at high speed, as soon as you step on the accelerator, the wind is fast, as easy as a tram, and there is no worry about battery life.
If it's just a short commute at the end of the year, it's not a good idea to extend the range.
On the one hand, in a similar experience, the price of a plug-in hybrid is half or even only one-third. On the other hand, pure electric vehicles in the same price range have become popular with 800V and 800 km range.
In contrast, the extended-range vehicle generally only has a 400V platform, and the battery life is only 200 kilometers on the top of the sky, which is quite weak.
Moreover, the actual range of the extended range is also not enough, and it will be discounted by 7% like pure electric.
In other words, the actual charging frequency of extended-range cars is much more frequent than that of pure electric vehicles, which is a kind of torture.
The third advice is that if you don't have a home charge, don't buy an extended range
The development of extended range range is a little confusing, for example, car companies say that the comprehensive range exceeds 1200 kilometers at every turn.
At first glance it looks very good, calculate carefully, otherwise.
Take fuel vehicles as an example, 60 liters of fuel tank, fuel consumption of 6 liters, the official standard range can be marked 1000 kilometers, on this basis, increase the pure electric range, to reach 1200 kilometers is easy, far from what "black technology".
Therefore, the actual use of the car, we should pay more attention to its pure electric range, and the extended range car is generally about 100-200 kilometers.
This pure electric mileage, to put it bluntly, is no different from Hongguang MINI.
You know, the success of Hongguang MINI is not only cheap, but also because it gives home 220V charging.
That is to say, if the mobile phone cable is unplugged, the car charging cable can be plugged in, which is convenient.
It is not difficult to understand that the charging frequency of the extended-range car is the same as that of the "old man", and it is commonplace to do it once every 2-3 days.
If you don't have a home charger, you can't go to find an electric pile twice in three days. And it's not as fast as 800V charging,
However, to make matters worse, it is not as short as the "old man's music" charge, usually in 1-3 hours, neither long nor short.
As a result, it is often just to charge the extended-range car, and then you have to squat and consume it, and a wonderful morning will be wasted.
This torture of charging can be said to run through the days and nights of the car career.
In general, the hybrid camp composed of extended range/plug-in hybrid is already half of the new energy vehicles.
However, including pure electricity, no one can be called "perfect" at present.
It has its advantages, but it also leaves its own shortcomings.
Therefore, don't blindly worship which kind of car, don't have any obsession, and make a choice based on actual needs.
In this way, seven or eight times out of ten regrets can be avoided.