Every year during the National Day holiday, highway traffic jams are a long-lasting topic. In the past two years, the increase in new energy vehicles and the difficulty in charging in service areas have also become hot topics.

Every year during the National Day holiday, highway traffic jams are a long-lasting topic. In the past two years, the increase in new energy vehicles and the difficulty in charging in service areas have also become hot topics.

For example, on October 2, a car owner drove his Tesla back to his hometown in Hunan from Shenzhen, Guangdong, but was blocked halfway through the road. He had not left Guangdong for more than 24 hours. In the end, the car ran out of power and had to spend 2,000 yuan to call a trailer. After returning to the village, he was despised by his family and became a joke.

Well... Although the car has no electricity and calls a trailer, it is not too strange to call it a trailer, to put it bluntly, it is caused by electric vehicles' traffic jams and electricity, which is not too strange. But another thing has caused heated discussions among many people in the past few days: plug-in hybrid vehicles (also include extended-range models), should we compete with pure electric car owners for charging piles on the highway?

The thing is like this. On the night of October 5, a netizen was passing by a service area and found that there were only 4 charging piles, three of which were used by extended-range hybrid vehicles. On the premise that the charging resources in the high-speed service area were extremely precious during the National Day holiday, this netizen suggested that these hybrid models that can burn oil should not compete with pure electric car owners for charging piles because charging is cheaper than burning oil.

is the matter, but this netizen's Weibo caused controversy after it was posted. Some people think that charging is also a hybrid model's right, and you can't control it. The original Po owner is suspected of moral kidnapping; some people think that hybrid models should take advantage of their ability to burn oil and don't compete with pure electric vehicles for charging piles.

I think this is what I think: the charging piles in the high-speed service area are public facilities. Since they are public facilities, it means that everyone can use them. As for whoever uses them, it is nothing more than a question of first and then arrive. This is the "duty"; but from the perspective of "emotional points", the charging resources in the high-speed service area are indeed short of charge during holidays, and it is best for hybrid car owners to be willing to let the charging piles be.

In addition, if I am a hybrid car owner, to be honest, I don’t want to waste time queuing up to charge on the way, so it’s easier to get the gasoline in full and go there. I wonder what you think?

. For pure electric car owners, if conditions permit, I still do not recommend driving electric cars for long distances during holidays, because at present, at least in the high-speed service area, it is still difficult to increase the number of charging piles in at least the high-speed service area for a long time.

There is a set of data showing that as of June this year, the number of new charging infrastructure nationwide was 1.301 million, and after June, the number of public charging piles continued to expand at an average monthly increase of 53,000 (data comes from the China Charging Alliance). The new speed of the charging pile of

can be said to be very "China's speed". In the current environment where the country is vigorously promoting electric vehicles, the number of charging piles has tripled year-on-year compared with last year. Although the number of new energy vehicles has also increased significantly this year (the number of new energy vehicles in the first three quarters of this year has doubled year-on-year compared with last year), under the premise that the country vigorously laid charging piles, the ratio of the number of charging piles and the number of new energy vehicles this year has shrunk by 1:2.6 from 1:3 last year. In other words, there is now a public charging pile for every 2.6 new energy vehicles. Is the data of

very considerable? It seems that the battery life of electric car owners can be greatly reduced, but the problem is: most charging piles are in urban areas, and there are still only more than 10,000 that are actually laid near high-speed service areas or highway exits nationwide.

Today's electric vehicle charging environment allows you to enjoy public charging piles very conveniently in the urban area, but during holidays, the charging conditions on the highway have not improved much. Why does this happen to

? Because on weekdays, only a very small number of electric vehicles need to be charged in the service area, you will understand that on non-holidays, nine out of ten charging piles in the service area are idle. But on holidays, a large number of new energy vehicles are pouring onto the highway, and charging demand will naturally rise, and there will inevitably be a situation of queuing up to charge.

But if it is just to meet the demand for electric vehicles to charge in the service area during holidays, and thus laying a large number of charging piles on the highway, it is completely unrealistic at this stage. If it is enough for a long holiday, it means that it is idle on weekdays and eventually a very large waste will occur. There is a comment from a netizen here that is very appropriate and interesting: it is like a server of Zhalang. Every time a celebrity collapses, it will collapse. But it is not that there are stars who collapse every day. There is no need to expand the capacity, so it just goes bad.

So is there any way? Is battery swap technology feasible? The same goes for the same sentence. Although domestic battery swap technology and battery swap stations are also developing rapidly, it is actually not enough when it is holidays. After all, the batteries in the battery swap station also require time to charge. And how many batteries can there be in a battery swap station? NIO was the first to start building a battery swap station. It currently claims that each battery swap station is equipped with 13 batteries, but NIO currently has 6 models on sale, and these 6 models cannot be fully universal battery packs. Therefore, in fact, the 13 batteries of NIO battery swap station are not battery packs with the same model. When encountering peaks during holidays, the help of battery swap stations is limited.

In short, the same sentence is still the case. Based on the current charging conditions on the highway, it is recommended that friends who have the conditions try not to drive electric cars on long distances during holidays. As for hybrid car owners, whether in urban areas or service areas, using public charging piles is his right, and there is nothing to blame, but if you can, it is actually a good thing to give the charging pile to electric car owners~