The faith of fuel vehicle owners has collapsed, the penetration rate of new energy vehicles has exceeded 50%, and fuel vehicles have become a "minority".

As the time enters April, many domestic auto products have been relatively stable at the price level, the preferential strategy has been released, and the price that should be reduced has also been reduced almost, so many consumers began to buy related models. There is no doubt that after the Spring Festival, the new energy vehicles that are fighting a price war are quite fierce in terms of momentum.

A few days ago, the Passenger Association announced the production and sales data of domestic passenger cars from April 1 to 14, 2024, and the data shows that from April 1 to 14, the sales of new energy vehicles reached 260,000 units, accounting for 503,900 yuan compared with the sales of 516,000 passenger cars. In other words, the penetration rate of new energy vehicles has officially exceeded 50%, and new energy vehicles have a sales advantage compared with fuel vehicles, so this is a landmark event.

When Xiaobian wrote this content, Xiaobian is located in Lanzhou, the price of 92 gasoline is 8.25 yuan/L, the price of 95 gasoline is 8.8 yuan/L, this price is still relatively high, according to the fuel consumption of general fuel vehicles 7L/100km, fuel vehicles travel one kilometer, the cost is 0.58-0.61 yuan, so in the cost of using the car, fuel vehicles continue to rise. The key problem is that when buying a car, fuel vehicles also have to pay purchase tax, but for most new energy vehicle products, they are basically exempt from purchase tax at present.

Then the current situation is very obvious, the purchase of new energy vehicles in the total number of users who buy passenger cars, has been more than half, and oil prices are still rising, plus many new energy vehicles because of the involution, resulting in a continuous decline in prices, which makes the sales of fuel vehicles decline very obviously.

In the past March, the domestic new energy vehicles are soaring, but the sales of fuel vehicles that are not in the center of "public opinion" naturally showed a downward trend, and the most shocking thing is that some of the fuel vehicles that were very popular before, can be said to be the best-selling list "nail households", sales have also shown a significant decline. Sales of Honda Accord fell by 72.7%, Toyota Camry fell by 59.2%, Corolla fell by 54.4%, and Volkswagen Lavida fell by 36.4%, which is still very obvious.

So why did the penetration rate of new energy vehicles in China exceed 50%, which will happen in April, in fact, we also talked about it above, that is, the price war of new energy vehicles, breaking the most important barrier of new energy vehicles in the eyes of many users - high price. Before many consumers are reluctant to buy new energy vehicles, saying that new energy vehicles are new products, not stable enough, technology iteration is too fast! But most people are still new energy vehicles, compared with the same level of fuel vehicles, the price will be much higher, so many of these prices, can add fuel for several years.

However, in March, BYD's models successively launched the Glory Edition and new models, and the purchase threshold was greatly reduced, realizing "electricity is lower than oil", and many new energy models followed up one after another, and many consumers were broken. In addition, new energy vehicles have stronger performance, smoother driving, and a high degree of intelligence, especially the overall cost is much lower than that of fuel vehicles, which makes many consumers willing to choose to buy after the price of new energy vehicles is relatively stable, and the sales and penetration rate in April have come up all of a sudden.

So the question is, as oil prices continue to run at a high level, the advantages of new energy vehicles are becoming more and more obvious, so as a consumer, do you want to continue to buy fuel vehicles?

First of all, we must emphasize a point of view, that is, fuel vehicles and new energy vehicles have a process of coexistence, so there will still be many consumers who are willing to buy fuel vehicles, especially some consumers who are obsessed with internal combustion engines. However, for the vast majority of consumers who just take the vehicle as a means of walking, and hope that the operation is simple and the cost is low, it is of little significance to buy fuel vehicles at this time period.

Because from a technical point of view, fuel vehicles have reached a bottleneck period, there can be no big breakthroughs, and many manufacturers are not willing to invest heavily in research and development, so the technical differences between new energy vehicles and fuel vehicles can only get bigger and bigger, so choosing to buy new energy vehicles is a more rational choice for most consumers.