Dear prospective car owners, have you fallen into the showdown of the century between "fuel pie" and "electric man" when buying a car? Some people firmly believe that fuel vehicles will stand like Nokia's mobile phone empire, and some people ridicule that new energy vehicles are like a science fiction blockbuster, and all the suspense has not yet been revealed. However, we might as well compare the fuel car to Kodak, the overlord of the film camera industry in the past, which was once brilliant but was quickly eclipsed by the impact of digital technology. You see, it was only five years from the collapse of Nokia's mobile phone empire to its full replacement by smartphones, and this historical lesson is a living example.
Nowadays, new energy vehicles are no longer just a new concept, and their driving experience is enough to meet the daily needs of most people. Moreover, the development speed of this field is comparable to Moore's law in the chip industry - iterative upgrades every 18 months, and the moment of start-up can make many fuel vehicles unreachable. Difficult to charge? Don't worry, 46 of the 68 service areas on the current Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway have covered charging piles, and you can find a charging station every about 43 kilometers on average. Even if the average range of electric vehicles on the market is 300km, as long as it is not planned to drive to Mars, this charging pile layout can still hold most of the journey.
Although the current number of charging piles needs to be improved, this does not constitute an absolute reason for us to completely abandon fuel vehicles and embrace electric vehicles. After all, the rich and diverse choice of brands and models, as well as the mature supporting facilities, are still difficult to give up. However, the biggest embarrassment faced by fuel vehicles is that many countries have shown a "ban on sales" and are ready to stage a realistic version of the "knockout" of speed and furious. For example, Germany, the hometown of luxury brands, as well as France (2024), the United States (2023), the United Kingdom (2024), India (2023), Norway (2025) and other countries, have all set their own farewell performance schedules for fuel vehicles.
In the face of this mighty change, even fuel car companies with a century-old accumulation cannot escape their fate. Compared with mobile phone companies, the relationship between automakers and first-class merchants is more complex, and any change in the link will lead to a reshuffle of the interest chain. In 2018, the Volkswagen Group announced that the last generation of internal combustion engine technology would be unveiled in 2026, meaning that it would no longer be involved in the development of internal combustion engines. Audi followed suit, saying in 2021 that it would no longer introduce ** gasoline engines. Many old car companies have issued statements, as if they are making a silent farewell.
The development of new energy vehicles is inseparable from the courage of the new forces of car manufacturing, and it is also indispensable to the determination of the strong men of traditional fuel car companies. As early as ten years ago, China began to quietly lay out in the field of new energy, which may have been misunderstood as a move to work hard and lose money, but now it seems that this undoubtedly shows China's extraordinary strategic vision. Although domestic new energy vehicles once struggled to move forward in the shadow of Tesla, in October last year, BYD successfully reached the top with a counterattack in sales, allowing us to witness the highlight moment of domestic new energy vehicles.