comment now｜hybrid cars are criticized for occupying charging piles. how to solve the charging problem?
2024-10-04
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during the national day holiday, travel peaks in various places. for new energy vehicles, charging piles on highways and scenic spots have also become a sought-after resource. many highway service areas have seen queues for charging. but overall, the charging anxiety in public opinion has been alleviated. according to cctv news, many new energy car owners said that the number of charging piles has increased significantly this year, and most of them are fast charging, and staff are on-site to dispatch services at any time.
indeed, the relief of charging anxiety among new energy car owners is mainly due to the rapid laying of charging piles in recent years. data from the china charging alliance shows that as of the end of june 2024, the cumulative number of charging infrastructure nationwide was 10.243 million units, while the number of new energy vehicles nationwide reached 24.72 million units during the same period, and the ratio has reached 2.4:1. in addition, the vehicle-to-pile ratio of pure electric vehicles in china's incremental market in 2024 has reached 1:1.
but it is undeniable that facilities such as charging piles are easily affected by seasonal factors. especially during long holidays like the national day, supply and demand imbalances may still suddenly break out on some road sections and time periods. data shows that in the two days before the national day holiday this year, the charging volume on highways reached 15.58 million kilowatt hours, an increase of 56% over the same period last year and a record high. the surge in demand has inevitably caused some car owners to queue up for charging at high-speed service areas and wait for too long.
some owners of pure electric vehicles complained in a video saying that hybrid vehicles have fuel tanks and have no worries about battery life. they also compete with pure electric vehicles for charging slots. some hybrid vehicles have a maximum charging power of only 20kw, and the maximum pure electric range is only more than 200 kilometers or 100 kilometers when fully charged. it takes 1 hour to charge. as a result, some pure electric car owners questioned the unreasonableness of these hybrid cars, saying, "you have turned fast charging into slow charging."
the emergence of this situation is actually not difficult to predict. it is just the internal friction caused by reverse squeeze when resources are in short supply. however, the problem obviously cannot be solved through moral condemnation. expanding supply is the right way. especially in the context of booming tourism, special response during peak hours has become a topic that the domestic new energy industry must deal with.
objectively speaking, many places have already made considerable preparations during the national day holiday this year. for example, shanghai has applied intelligent mobile charging robots in highway service areas for the first time to ensure the travel of new energy vehicles; all 850 charging piles in 220 high-speed service areas in jiangsu have completed the "replacement of old ones with new ones"; shandong has completed the "replacement of old ones with new ones" in jinan, qingdao, zibo, and weifang ahead of schedule. waiting for the renovation and upgrading of 86 charging stations in highway service areas in 13 cities, etc.
in response to the boom in county and rural tours, some places have also launched a "charging pile into the village" service to alleviate the anxiety of new energy vehicle owners about self-driving tours.
of course, conflicts between different car models are also a reminder - with the rapid development of the new energy automobile industry, resource problems may present themselves in various forms. conflicts around resource allocation between car models are one example. then innovative management methods and the use of multiple means of adjustment may also be included in the governance ideas.
in response to this new phenomenon, we might as well adjust it through price or technical leverage during some peak periods. for example, a value mechanism that floats according to supply and demand can be used to guide hybrid vehicles with multiple choices to refill gasoline; or as some car owners suggest, since many vehicles have introduced fast charging technology, they can try to set charging caps at special times and locations. , for example, it can only charge to 80% of the power, thereby increasing the circulation speed of fast charging piles.
in recent years, my country's new energy vehicles have made great strides in development, and they are leading the world in terms of output and sales. with the booming new energy automobile industry, facility construction or rule setting need to be further improved to balance the contradiction between supply and demand and calm conflicts between car owners and models. after all, whether it is pure electric, hybrid or extended range, all new energy car owners are equal.
the key to solving the problem is to start from the source of supply, innovate the resource allocation model, flexibly adjust the layout of charging piles, improve the mobility of mobile charging piles, better cope with major challenges at special nodes, and ensure that people have a worry-free journey. holiday.
the paper special commentator jiang cheng
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