Are you interested in pulling a ton of battery to run around the street?

Netcom News reported on March 20 that after a long wait, BAIC, BYD and other manufacturers finally handed over the first batch of electric vehicles to individual consumers in Beijing. The pure electric vehicles are free of choosing number, financial subsidies, and the “special affairs” of the power sector have all helped.

The electric car corner has been overtaken for five years and has always been entangled in the performance level. There is little involvement in consumer-oriented science work for the history of pure electric vehicles, the status of new energy vehicles, the development of bottlenecks, technology choices and evolution, and whether emissions are zero. Someone has done a sample survey, even in the intellectual class, what is the essential difference between a pure electric vehicle and a hybrid vehicle? Almost half of the respondents were confused.

If consumers even have a fuzzy ABC for pure electric vehicles, the popularization of electric vehicles will inevitably be difficult. I am not concerned about the sales volume during the start-up period, but I am worried that consumers will encounter various unsatisfactory purchases and cause the market to “fall cold”.

Recently, I have been around with friends and asked me how to buy a "Tesla" electric car. The number of consultants shocked me so that I can't help but admire the new technology and new models for the new and beautiful packaging that has been brought to the old concept of electric vehicles for more than 150 years. I have to believe that if Tesla is really qualified to sell in Beijing, it is the price of seven or eight hundred thousand Yuan promised by it. It is not impossible to sell a Land Rover Aurora.

However, I asked my friend, what do you value Tesla? In addition to excellent sports car performance, fashion shape and Internet concept, as an electric car, its cruising range of 350 to 500 kilometers is also one of the selling points.

Listen, I can't tell the truth. Tesla's battery energy storage ratio and battery management system have indeed surpassed many peers, but there is no essential breakthrough. Tesla's battery performance is undoubtedly the best: every two kilograms of battery can provide one kilometer cruising range. That is to say, a 500-kilometer cruising range requires a battery pack of 1,000 kg; and a fuel-vehicle that runs the same mileage is only required to refuel 30 liters. If you don't care about the weight of 15 adults forever, then think about buying a mobile phone battery is expensive, how much does a 1 ton lithium battery pack cost you?

Therefore, the length of the range is not the standard to examine the electric vehicle. For me, until there is a qualitative leap in battery technology, I would rather have a small electric vehicle with a range of less than 50km, which is basically used for short trips with a combination of economy and ease of charging. For short and long trips, I'd buy a BYD plug-in hybrid "Qin".

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