It's not the charging technology that hinders the popularity of electric vehicles, but the fact that electric vehicles are too expensive?
When it comes to electric vehicles, many people say that if charging an electric vehicle can be as convenient as refueling a fuel vehicle, then they will buy an electric vehicle, as if it is the charging problem that prevents the development of electric vehicles.
As far as the current charging technology is concerned, the user can be guaranteed to charge 80% of the power within 40 minutes at least, and some manufacturers' technologies can achieve 100 kilometers of battery life after one minute of charging. Moreover, in order to solve the charging problem, global manufacturers have almost started the charging pile armament competition. Tesla has continued to build new super charging stations, and BBA and others have begun to build super charging stations in combination.
Even in China, the government has made it clear that it will vigorously expand the charging pile, and will arrange the charging location in a more reasonable place, striving to meet the charging demand of 5 million electric vehicles in 2020.
That is to say, as long as you buy an electric car, you don't need to worry about charging in the future, because most of the time, the car is not driving on the road, but parked in the parking space, and the electric car can be charged in the spare time of parking, because the charging pile's The number can be multiplied in a short period of time, and as the number of electric vehicles increases, charging piles will also become the most common infrastructure on the road.
For most people, the car is a means of transportation. The daily travel distance of many people using the car is only 100 kilometers. The current battery life of electric vehicles can completely cope with it. Moreover, most people do not use the car at night, even if charging No matter how inefficient, it can fully charge most electric vehicles overnight.
In fact, it's not the charging issue that's preventing EV adoption, it's the batteries that are so expensive that EVs aren't cheap.
We all know that Tesla released a brand-new Model 3, the price of which is only 35,000, but its engineers said that the battery cost has become the biggest obstacle to the Model 3 price of 35,000. Musk also said that he hopes to reduce battery costs in 2018. If it cannot be achieved, he will be unhappy, because the most expensive component of the Model 3 is the battery.
At the two sessions this year, the founders of electric vehicle companies have made it clear that they hope to increase the fuel tax to subsidize electric vehicles, because the cost of electric vehicle batteries is too high, especially the two rare elements needed for batteries, which have not yet been found. alternatives.
At the same time, there are also suggestions to reduce the tax on power batteries, so as to reduce the cost of electric vehicles and further increase the sales of electric vehicles.
In addition, the price of electric vehicles on the market today is almost 200,000 yuan. Some people will definitely say that now in China, tens of thousands of dollars can buy a small electric car, and hundreds of thousands can buy a good electric car. Cars, but what I want to say is that those tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars are really not electric cars, they are at best a four-wheeled electric car, and they do not have the performance and control of a car at all.
Moreover, among many electric vehicles on the market in China, the battery life of many pure electric vehicles is about 200 kilometers, which is still a comprehensive battery life. The price of an electric car with a comprehensive range of more than 200 kilometers is as high as 200,000 yuan. If the battery life is increased by 400 kilometers, the price of the car may easily exceed 300,000 yuan.
We all know that the most sold cars in the global market are Class A cars, that is, cars priced at around 100,000 yuan, but the current electric cars have a battery life of only about 200 kilometers, but the price is as high as 200,000 yuan. Not many users are willing to buy it.
It is precisely because the cost of electric vehicles is too high that many electric vehicle manufacturers launch high-end electric vehicles first, which can guarantee profits, including Tesla, but due to the limited sales of high-end electric vehicles, Tesla has to launch a price The cheaper Model 3, but the electric car doesn't bring much profit to Tesla.
In addition, on a global scale, almost all electric vehicles have a battery life of up to about 550 kilometers. So far, this limit has not been broken. The reason why it cannot be broken is because the battery technology is limited and cannot carry more quotas in the same volume. If the battery capacity is increased blindly by increasing the battery volume, it will also bring a series of new problems.
That is to say, if the price of an electric car can be reduced to about 150,000 yuan, and its performance can be comparable to that of the current 100,000-yuan gasoline car, I believe most people will be willing to buy an electric car.
