Not to mention 10 years, why is it difficult for you to see an electric car that is more than 5 years old?

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2024-05-07 19:14Published in Henan

This is a question raised by a netizen, why is it difficult to see second-hand new energy vehicles with relatively long car ages?

This question is very interesting, second-hand cars are a very good way to test the quality and stability of the product, only products with stable quality can be mixed in the second-hand car market.

The reason is very simple, second-hand car consumers pay more attention to economic performance, rather than the intelligence, performance, and appearance of manufacturers when they advertise new cars.

The domestic second-hand car market, with annual sales of about 20 million, is an important consumer sector that can completely compete with new cars, in which fuel vehicles occupy an absolute dominant position.

This is completely different from the new car market, because the core leading sector of the new car market is new energy models, and in the first half of April this year, the penetration rate of new energy exceeded 50%, overpowering fuel vehicles.

As this netizen asked, it is difficult for us to see "relatively old" new energy vehicles, mainly for two reasons.

One is that the absolute ownership of new energy is still not large, and the penetration rate only means that in the past period of time, the sales volume has exceeded that of fuel vehicles, but the development of fuel vehicles for decades is still the absolute dominance of the entire market.

The rise of new energy vehicles in 2021 was not large before that, so in terms of absolute ownership, the new energy vehicles themselves are very small, let alone in the market sector 5 or 10 years ago, so the number of new energy old cars can be said to be "rare".

The other is that the early new energy vehicles have indeed reached the limit of their life.

For example, BAIC's EV series, Emgrand EV series, and BYD's EV products in the early years have basically reached the breakout period, which is completely different from fuel vehicles, and if you want to repair the accidents and failures of new energy vehicles, you need to invest more costs, and the battery, motor, and electronic control system can basically not be repaired and can only be replaced.

Extremely high maintenance costs and very low residual value, as long as the new energy vehicle fails after the end of its life, it is a very troublesome thing.

This is also one of the important reasons why we rarely see new energy vehicles with 5 or 10 years of age, and in 2023, new energy sales will enter a blowout period, and a large number of new energy vehicles bought by users are quasi-new cars.

If there is a problem during the warranty period, the manufacturer will be responsible, but the problem is that a car cannot only be used during the warranty period, and most car companies give a 6-year warranty and a lifetime warranty for three electric vehicles.

The three-electric system is very important, but if you want to make the manufacturer guarantee in the real sense, the complex terms are not something that every consumer can deal with, and it is not that the battery can not be used to find the manufacturer to claim.

One is that the identification standard is difficult, and the other is that the important parts of the vehicle are not only the battery and motor system, but also a large number of additional parts, sensors, chips, etc. are not covered by the lifetime warranty.

Therefore, the biggest question is whether it can be used stably after the warranty period, which is very critical.

In addition, the characteristics of the battery determine that it can run 400,000 kilometers without problems, but it is very difficult to maintain an extremely high capacity, charging speed and stability after 8 or 10 years.

Not long ago, Yutong and CATL teamed up to develop an "ultra-long-life battery" that can last for 15 years.

In the era of fuel vehicles, it is very easy for a fuel car to run for 15 years, and the maintenance work is also very simple, and the overseas market often has 20, 30, and 40 years of old cars, but it is very difficult for the electrification market to achieve this life.

The precision of the motor determines that the performance and reliability will decline after disassembly, and the characteristics of the battery determine that there will be performance attenuation and reliability reduction after 10 years, and it will also be accompanied by the inevitable problem of increasing failures.

Therefore, when buying a tram, you should not consider the issue of life, because the characteristics determine that the life of the tram, from the perspective of a car, is unqualified.

No matter how strong intelligent driving is, no matter how great the connected system is, no matter how fast the acceleration is and how fast the charge is, products without life will be consumed by time.

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