Not only consumers resist electric cars, but even Akio Toyoda has been resisting electric cars. It's not that electric cars are not good, but that electric cars were not reliable because of technical restrictions!
Toyota started the process of electrification as early as the 199s, just in time for the oil crisis. With the soaring oil prices all over the world and stricter environmental protection, Toyota was forced to embark on the road of its first transformation.
At that time, Toyota was faced with three choices, one was hybrid, the other was pure electricity, and the third was hydrogen fuel. From the present point of view, it must be pure circuit line that is the simplest.
However, taking the pure circuit line will face three very realistic problems.
1. Large-scale use of lead-acid batteries will bring serious pollution.
2. Electric vehicles need to build a large number of charging piles, which has high construction cost and long payback period.
3. Electric vehicles equipped with lead-acid batteries have short cruising range and short service life, which is not as convenient as fuel vehicles and difficult to popularize.
In fact, the problems faced by electric vehicles in those years have not been completely solved now. Toyota thinks that it is simply not reliable to take pure circuit lines.
in the early 199s, General Motors was a warning, and it invested billions of dollars in research and development. As a result, in the eyes of Americans at that time, electric vehicles were an IQ tax.
Toyota gave up the electric vehicle with the simplest technical route, and focused its research and development on hybrid electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells.
in 1997, Toyota introduced the world's first Prius hybrid electric vehicle, which swept Europe and America as soon as it went on the market, becoming a representative of new energy vehicles. Even without charging, the fuel consumption per 1 kilometers can be as low as 3.2L.
in November 221, the United nations climate conference held in Glasgow, England, issued the Glasgow declaration on "zero-emission" vehicles, promising to stop selling internal combustion engine vehicles worldwide in 24.
However, Toyota took the lead in opposing this declaration, but none of the Japanese car companies signed it. Akio Toyoda always thought: "The evolution direction of new energy vehicle technology is from hybrid fuel to hydrogen fuel."
As the saying goes, don't talk too much, or you will be embarrassed. In a blink of an eye, in December 221, Akio Toyoda suddenly announced All in pure electric vehicles, released more than a dozen pure electric vehicles in one breath, and announced that Lexus would be electrified.
You see, it's only a month since Akio Toyoda opposed the All in electric car.
I'm not surprised that Toyota entered the field of electric vehicles. As early as March 25th, 22, BYD and Toyota jointly established "BYD Toyota Electric Vehicle Technology Co., Ltd.".
It is reported that: "BYD is responsible for vehicle design, R&D and manufacturing, while Toyota is only responsible for acceptance."
if that's the case, to put it bluntly, the electric car that Toyota sells in China in the future will be BYD electric car with Toyota logo affixed.
It's really a turn of the wind. BYD used to learn from Toyota, but now BYD and Toyota are on an equal footing. Perhaps this is the fundamental reason why we strongly support the development of new energy vehicles, changing the backward situation of the automobile industry for a hundred years and realizing the real overtaking in corners.
Toyota's entry into the field of electric vehicles shows that hydrogen energy vehicles can't be effectively promoted at present, and both policies and capital have lined up for electric vehicles. As the electric vehicle market grows bigger and bigger, Toyota also wants a piece of the action.
There are many reasons. The most important reason is that domestic electric vehicles left a bad impression on consumers at first, which can be said that once bitten, twice shy.
In 214, Tesla announced some patented technologies, and new domestic car-making forces suddenly appeared like mushrooms after rain. Many car brands were added overnight, and it has been eight years. So far, many brands have not mass-produced a car.
The development routes of the new car-making forces are basically similar, and most of them are made by PPT. As a result, everyone may know. At present, only Wei Xiaoli has a good development momentum.
Traditional car companies are completely different from the new car-making forces. They have factories, technologies and funds. Originally, the transformation of electric vehicles was superior to the new car-making forces, but the result was surprising.
The traditional car manufacturers' thinking of building cars stays in the era of fuel vehicles, thinking that the electric vehicles only have changed the driving mode, replacing the three major components in the existing fuel vehicles with electric drives, electronic controls and batteries, and all the electric vehicles are "oil-to-electricity".
although all the new forces in car manufacturing are looking for traditional car manufacturers to do OEM work, at least they are brand-new pure electric platforms, at least with the development direction of intelligence, and at least the electric cars produced have no shadow of fuel vehicles.
Before 219, all electric vehicles on the road were converted from oil to electricity. These electric vehicles all had backward electronic control technology and imaginary cruising range, which gave consumers the impression that they were unreliable.
At that time, many online car drivers used this fuel-to-electric vehicle. They found that the battery decayed quickly, the battery life was short in winter, and charging was very troublesome, which led to the poor evaluation of electric vehicles by online car drivers.
At that time, many second-hand car dealers would not give a higher valuation when they saw such an electric car, resulting in a very low rate of second-hand electric cars.
These electric vehicles not only hurt the hearts of the first batch of electric vehicle owners, but also hindered the development of domestic electric vehicles. The battery technology, fast charging technology, electronic control technology and intelligence required for the development of electric vehicles have not improved.
Many people's impressions of electric vehicles come from online car drivers and used car dealers. Their comments have established the early reputation of electric vehicles. This bad reputation has made many people deeply resist electric vehicles.
in 218, Tesla announced the establishment of a super factory in Shanghai, which was the fastest year for the development of domestic electric vehicles. Both traditional car companies and new car-making forces felt the crisis.
the whole electric vehicle industry has been reshuffled, and traditional car companies have begun to make efforts to build electric vehicles, and mass-produced models of new forces have been rolled off the assembly line.
BYD Han EV, Tucki P7, Weilai ES8 and other models have entered the public's field of vision one after another, and the first impression is that they look good, which is essentially different from fuel car dealers, and they have a long battery life and fast charging.
Some people's cognition of electric vehicles began to change. They became the second owners to buy electric vehicles, and their experience in all aspects was better than changing from oil to electricity. The good reputation of electric vehicles began to spread from mouth to mouth.
So different voices appeared. The cost of electric vehicles per 1 kilometers is less than that of 1 yuan, with strong power, smooth driving, good quietness and high intelligence. Once used to electric vehicles, they are no longer willing to drive fuel vehicles.
in my opinion, some people are backward in their understanding of electric vehicles, so we should look at the progress of electric vehicles from a developmental perspective, and the serious injury of electric vehicles has not been completely solved.
The essence of mileage anxiety is "energy-replenishing anxiety". As long as the energy-replenishing is convenient and fast, the cruising range of 5 kilometers of electric vehicles is enough.
by the end of 221, the number of new energy vehicles in China reached 7.84 million, the number of charging infrastructure was about 2.617 million, and the ratio of vehicles to piles was about 3: 1. The number of pure trams increased, which enlarged the charging problem of electric vehicles.
As long as they travel during the holiday peak, many electric car owners have to wait in line to charge. After seeing this scene of waiting in line to charge, many people have deepened their resistance to electric cars and think that electric cars just can't run long distances.
At present, electric vehicles are in a high-speed development stage, and it takes time to improve supporting facilities. For consumers with long-distance needs, electric vehicles are really not the best choice.
Many people don't have a fixed parking space. Fuel vehicles can rent parking spaces and change parking spaces at any time, so electric vehicles can't be so casual. Installing a fixed charging pile requires cost, and if parking spaces are changed frequently, the cost is too high.
Parking space is not available, and it is too expensive to buy a parking space. One netizen said, "I live in Shenzhen, and a parking space costs 2, yuan, which is more expensive than a car. If there is no parking space, I can only buy a fuel car." There are not a few such views.
for cities with expensive parking spaces, even if the cost of electric vehicles is low, if the cost of comprehensive vehicles is included, there may be no advantage over fuel vehicles.
if we say that the fundamental reason for people's resistance to electric vehicles is that the power battery has the characteristic of attenuation, many people think that it will cost 7, to 8, yuan to replace the battery of electric vehicles, and the oil money saved in front will be returned by replacing the battery.
in order to alleviate people's car purchase anxiety, many car companies have made a warranty policy for batteries, and even made a lifetime warranty policy for batteries.
It can be said that it is full of sincerity, but these can't dispel everyone's concerns. Many people question the battery warranty policy and even think it is full of routines.
to put it bluntly, the essence of these people's concern is that they are afraid of battery decay, but the power battery is not so easy to decay. Take lithium iron phosphate battery as an example, it can be cycled for 2 times, and the family car will not be obviously attenuated after normal use for more than 1 years.
Those who say that the battery decays quickly, or those drivers of the network car who switched from oil to electricity, can only say that the injured heart is difficult to smooth the scar for a while, and the inherent cognition will not change, and they may resist the electric car all their lives.
The torrent of the development of the times is rolling in. No matter whether you are against electric vehicles or not, the era of electric vehicles has come to us in great strides, and no one can stop it.