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During the May Day holiday, the highway once again staged a "big traffic jam". In this traffic jam, the most tormented is the 16 million new energy vehicle owners.
They once proudly said that new energy vehicles are fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly, and an inevitable trend in the future of travel, but this traffic jam has ruthlessly torn the veil of these "lies". New energy vehicles, is it really as beautiful as the legend?
I have a colleague who just bought a new energy vehicle on April 15, and the manufacturer claims that the range is 400 kilometers. During the May Day holiday, he plans to drive this new car and take his family from Wuhan to Changsha for a self-drive.
According to his previous experience, a one-way distance of 350 kilometers is absolutely enough for a single charge. Reality slapped him in the face hard.
When the car reaches 250 km, the battery level shows that there are only 100 km left, and there are still 100 km left from the destination. In desperation, he decided to go to the service area to recharge.
There are three cars lined up in front of each of the six charging stations. On a one-and-a-half-hour basis, he would have to wait four and a half hours for his turn. Time is money, and he can only grit his teeth and try his luck in the next service area.
Along the way, the whole family turned off the air conditioner and endured the scorching heat, for fear of consuming a little more electricity. When they finally arrived at the next service area, they waited for another three hours until the battery was 100% charged.
The 350-kilometer journey took nearly 8 hours to charge, and this is just a microcosm of the "miserable" experience of many new energy vehicle owners.
Some people say that the biggest advantage of new energy vehicles is to save money. When you spend hours in the service area waiting for a recharge, the fuel money you save has long been lost in the payment of time.
What's more, with the reduction of oil prices and the rise of electricity prices, the economic advantages of new energy vehicles are becoming precarious. Saving money is just a lie.
Environmental protection is another trump card of new energy vehicles. But have you ever wondered how much environmental burden the production and scrapping of those batteries will bring? To produce a battery, you need to mine and smelt a lot of ore, consume a lot of hydropower, and emit all kinds of pollutants.
Scrapped batteries are extremely difficult to recycle because of their complex chemical composition. The so-called environmental protection is nothing more than the transfer of pollution.
Some people say that new energy vehicles represent the future. But today, when the construction of charging piles is far from keeping up with the growth of vehicles, and there is no breakthrough in the battery technology revolution, who can say that it is the future?
Perhaps one day, hydrogen fuel cells or other new technologies will take their place, and lithium batteries will fade out of the past like lead-acid batteries. The future is always full of uncertainties.
The embarrassment of 16 million car owners is not the fault of the new energy vehicle technology itself. It reminds us that anything new takes time to perfect. At the beginning of the birth of automobiles, they also faced various problems such as lack of fuel and poor roads.
But it is the efforts of generations that have made it a great invention that has changed the world. The same is true for new energy vehicles, its future requires the joint efforts of all sectors of society.
For car companies, it is necessary to concentrate on research and seek breakthroughs in battery capacity and charging speed, rather than blindly pursuing the so-called range digital game.
For the government, it is necessary to improve the construction of charging infrastructure, provide support in electricity prices, car insurance and other policies, and create a good growth environment for new energy vehicles.
As consumers, we should look at new energy vehicles more rationally, not blindly follow, not fanatical, and use actual needs to choose whether to buy and how to use.
The embarrassment of 16 million car owners reminds us to objectively understand new energy vehicles. It's not a panacea, but it shouldn't be killed with a stick either. The traffic jam on May Day will pass, but new energy vehicles are still on the road.
Those "lies" that have been exposed will eventually turn into the driving force for it to move forward. In the voice of doubt, in the voice of encouragement, with the joint efforts of all parties, the new energy vehicle will eventually drive to its own future. As Chinese people, what we need to do is to give it a little patience, a little tolerance, and a little hope.