Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Li. Nowadays, trams and petrol cars are not expensive, especially the kind of small cars under 100,000 yuan, whether it is a petrol car or a tram, it is basically the same price. In the past, it was always said that trams are tens of thousands more expensive than petrol cars, and buying trams is an IQ tax, and saving fuel does not save money. Well, now that both trams and petrol cars have the same price, and even trams are cheaper than petrol cars. After driving for the same 10 years, how much will the cost of a tram and a petrol car be different?
When I went to the 4S store to see the car the day before yesterday, the sales of the 4S store explained to me that the trams that sell well now are basically tens of thousands of yuan, and many people are actually afraid to buy more expensive cars when they buy trams. So let's compare the cheaper BYD Seagull and Honda's Fit today, they are all models that belong to the 60,000 level after discounts, and see how much the cost of the tram and the fuel car will be different after 10 years, whether it is fuel-efficient or not money-saving.
After BYD's Seagull cut prices this year, it directly dried the price to 6, and today we will compare BYD's Seagull with the Honda Fit of the same level. Fit is also a small car, its price is the same as BYD's Seagull, the difference is the power system of the two cars, the Seagull represents the domestic new energy, and the Fit represents the traditional fuel vehicle. These two cars are real scooters, also called tool cars, mainly used for commuting or traveling, generally speaking, the cars for this purpose are basically driven every day, and the annual mileage will be about 10,000 kilometers, so we will drive 10,000 kilometers per year to see how much difference the cost of the two cars is.
Let's talk about the seagull first, the seagull is a 30-degree new energy vehicle, with a full battery life of 305 kilometers, but in fact, the water of this battery life is not small, the actual battery life is 6 to 7 discounts, and the actual mileage that can be used when fully charged is about 210 kilometers. However, it is not excluded that some people are more cautious in driving trams, and they can squeeze the range to 250 kilometers. Therefore, let's calculate the average cruising range of 250 kilometers in various road conditions of high-speed and national highways with full charge throughout the year, which is actually 12 kilowatt-hours of electricity per 100 kilometers, and 1,200 kilowatt-hours of electricity for 10,000 kilometers. But how much of the 1,200 kWh of electricity is charged by charging piles? How much of it is charged at home is not easy to calculate. Considering that many people can't install charging piles at home, they don't dare to buy trams, so we default to the 1200 kWh electricity is charged by home charging piles, 5 cents per kWh, and the annual electricity bill is 600 yuan.
But I learned from my colleagues in the 4S shop and the insurance company that the insurance of the tram is a little more expensive than the oil car every year, and it is generally more normal to be about 1,000 yuan more expensive, so when we calculate the insurance later, we will offset each other in pairs, and the excess insurance premium can be calculated. The tram needs to be maintained once every 10,000 kilometers, and the cost is about 300, and after 10 years, it is considered a large maintenance and small maintenance after the average, and 5,000 is enough. It is equivalent to saying that if the battery is not broken after 10 years of driving the dolphin, the cost of using the car is 21,000.
Look at the cost of the car after 10 years of Fit, the fuel consumption of the Fit is relatively low, in my friend's words, you add a tank of fuel to drive until you can't finish it. I found on the Internet that the comprehensive fuel consumption of the Fit per 100 kilometers is about 6.7L, which is the average fuel consumption calculated under various road conditions including urban areas and highways. If you drive 10,000 kilometers a year, the Fit needs to burn 670 liters of gasoline, and the oil price I went to refuel the day before yesterday was 8 yuan 3, according to this trend, it is possible that the oil price will only be high and not low in 10 years, let's calculate it according to 8 yuan. It is equivalent to saying that Fit will cost 5,360 yuan a year to refuel, which is 53,600 in 10 years.
There is no need to calculate the insurance additionally, because when calculating the dolphins, only the extra money spent on insurance was calculated, and the two were offset, so we calculated the cost of maintenance. If you are not willing to spend money, you can maintain it once a year for more than 200, and if you are willing to spend money like me, it will cost you more than 500 to maintain it once a year. Let's take a median annual maintenance cost of 350 yuan, and the maintenance cost for 10 years is 3,500 yuan, so the cost of the car for 10 years is 57,000. This cost is actually low, and there are many fragmentary costs that cannot be calculated, such as replacing spark plugs, changing transmission oil, etc., which are all to be calculated, but there is no way to calculate accurately, let's hit 3,000 into it, that is, 10 years later, the Fit spent 60,000.
At this time, the battery of the tram was not broken. In the case of a lifetime warranty, both cars are not considered to be sold, and it is obvious that the Fit of the Seagull as a tram hangs the oil car, and the Fit costs 39,000 more than the Seagull. But after driving a car for 10 years, even if it is not bad, many people are tired of driving, especially this small scooter, which is basically going to be sold. It shouldn't be a problem for the Fit to sell 30,000 after 10 years, and it is not a problem for the Seagull to sell 20,000 after 10 years, after all, the 30-degree battery is worth thousands of dollars. In this way, the seagull still costs 29,000 less than the Fit. And what if you don't sell the car?
If you don't sell the car, both the Seagull and the Fit will continue to drive, and there are two possibilities when both cars are scrapped, but either one is a tram of this level.
The first possibility: Seagull relies on the lifetime warranty of the battery cell to support the car until the car is scrapped, so the scrap iron can be sold for about 5,000, then there is no problem of replacing the battery in this case. And the Fit has always had to burn oil, so this cost gap may become 60,000.
The second possibility is that the Seagull loses the lifetime warranty of the battery during the use of the car, and has to replace the battery once at its own expense. The 30-kilowatt-hour battery needs about 24,000 yuan at the current price, and we need 30,000 yuan to replace the battery. In this way, the money saved by electricity in the first 10 years will only be 9,000 after replacing the battery, which is equivalent to earning a year after changing the battery for a year. If the car is scrapped when it reaches the 15th year after the battery is replaced, and the rust is rotten, it is equivalent to driving for 5 years after the battery is replaced, and according to the above calculation method, it can be calculated that the Seagull spent almost 20,000 less than the Fit after 5 years, so plus the 9,000 saved in the first 10 years, that is 29,000.
From the above, if you drive 10,000 kilometers a year, you don't actually save much money on a tram than a gasoline car. Therefore, many people say that electric cars will completely replace gasoline vehicles, and I think this argument is not tenable at the moment, unless the price of gasoline goes up or there is another major breakthrough in electric car technology. If you drive less, then it doesn't matter if you buy a tram or a petrol car, after buying a tram, as long as you drive until you are scrapped, you will definitely lose money. But you have to be prepared to put up with the existing shortcomings of the train. Finally, do you think I'm right?