The Spring Festival holiday is coming to an end, and the return of self-driving around the country is ushering in a peak. Since the controversy over gasoline cars and trams, complaints about electric vehicles have always been indispensable for long holiday travel. This time, I didn't encounter any serious traffic jams when I went home before the Spring Festival, and I thought that the oil and electricity dispute could be over. Unexpectedly, the return trip after the holiday once again ushered in the climax of traffic jams.
Especially before the holiday, those who had the courage to drive an electric car home have now encountered a large wave of complaints. On the Weibo hot search list, the first batch of people who drove their electric dads home regretted the topic of ranking first, which sparked a large number of discussions among netizens.
Netizens complained that the problem of electric vehicles is actually still those problems: "The road of the oil truck for 6 hours, and the tram has not been driven for 8 hours; I am anxious about the cold weather, I am anxious about turning on the air conditioner, and I am also anxious when I see the number of battery percentage; I finally got to the service area, queued for an hour, and charged for an hour to ......”
The time to go back to my hometown before the holiday is relaxed, and this kind of travel anxiety is not obvious. Now it's after the holiday, seeing that I am about to go to work, and I have to rush back to the city, and when I encounter a traffic jam and the power is about to run out, the anxiety is obviously bursting. The so-called anxiety is, in the final analysis, the fear of trouble and delay.
Objectively speaking, it may be an exaggeration to say that driving a long distance on a tram has become a thrilling new outdoor challenge. However, at the moment, when the demand for travel is concentrated during the Spring Festival, it is indeed almost interesting to drive a tram for long distances freely. Many bloggers and netizens have also rationally expressed similar views.
Some digital bloggers said that in fact, today's electric dads are not so "dad", and it is not uncomfortable to run long distances. In the case of good daily road conditions, the experience of long-distance self-driving is okay, but in the scene of the Spring Festival, the pure electric experience is a little worse, and the congestion of some servers is even more outrageous than that on the road, and they are all electric vehicles queuing up to replenish the battery. Teacher Han Lu, the big V of the car circle, specially sent a **, suggesting: "Popular holidays, popular highways, don't travel and return to your hometown in a pure electric car." ”
Therefore, if there is really only one tram, there is no way, if there is a petrol car that does not drive and chooses to drive the tram to return home for a long time, it is really a bit of a self-inflicted death.
In fact, the topic of "electric dad" has never been broken over the years, and everyone has become more and more rational about the shortcomings of electric vehicles in long-distance travel. Digital blogger Brother Hard pointed out that the biggest problem with pure electric vehicles running long distances is not the range and charging speed, but uncertainty. In short, I don't know if there is a charging pile on the server in front of me, whether it can be used, whether it is fast enough, how many people are queuing, and how long the car in front of it will take to charge. Although there are various reasons why everyone chooses to drive an electric car back to their hometown, if you don't plan reasonably, you will inevitably encounter various problems.
Of course, if it is said that people who buy electric cars regret it, it is inevitable to generalize. Let's put aside the difference between electric vehicles, value retention, insurance, maintenance, etc. and oil vehicles, only in terms of travel demand itself, if it is used as a daily urban transportation, electric vehicles undoubtedly still have huge advantages: fast acceleration, quiet, low cost of electricity, and convenient charging.
However, if the family has only one car, and this car also has to undertake the daily urban commuting, sometimes high-speed and long-distance travel scenarios, it is obvious that electric vehicles are still not fully competent. At such times, hybrid and range-extended models, even those that are considered obsolete HEVs, can play a better role than pure electric vehicles.
A certain trend can also be seen in the sales volume. According to the data of the Passenger Association, the sales volume of new energy passenger vehicles in China in 2023 will be 77360,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 362%。However, the year-on-year growth of pure electric models was only 21%, while the year-on-year growth of PHEV models, including plug-in hybrid and extended range, increased by 82%.5%。In other words, as the novelty of electric vehicles has passed, more and more people have become more pragmatic, so the growth rate of hybrid models has begun to outpace that of pure electric models. In the popular saying now: it's not that electric dads can't afford to raise, but that hybrids are more cost-effective.
So, will you choose to drive an electric car home for the Chinese New Year next year?
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