As the entry model of Audi's trams, the Audi Q2L e-tron is selling well in its own new energy vehicle product line. Many consumers choose this car in addition to its own luxury brand attributes, but also the advantage of raising a car and saving money. As a pure electric version of the Audi Q2L, the Audi Q2L e-tron does have certain advantages in terms of car maintenance costs. However, at the end of last year, the introduction of new energy vehicle captive insurance made many new energy vehicles spend a lot more on insurance than the original. Today we will take a look at whether the Audi Q2L e-tron has been affected by the new insurance in the car maintenance expenses, is it still a car that saves money?
Audi Q2L e-tron currently has only one model on sale, that is, the 2022 Q2L e-tron pure electric smart enjoyment model, today we will take a look at its insurance costs, maintenance costs and electricity costs.
Insurance Costs:
In the exclusive insurance of new energy vehicles, because the car damage insurance has increased the underwriting content of new energy vehicles such as three electric quality and spontaneous combustion, most models of car damage insurance have a certain increase in cost. However, according to the staff of the Audi 4S shop, the car damage insurance of the Audi Q2L e-tron has not risen compared with the original, and it is still 4868 yuan.
In the insurance sample we got from a platform, the Annual Insurance Fee of audi Q2L e-tron was 8,018 yuan in the case of purchasing 3 million three liabilities, car damage insurance and compulsory traffic insurance. If we assume that there has been no accident for three years, it is called insurance, and after calculating the insurance company's annual decreasing discount, the total insurance cost required for the Audi Q2L e-tron for three years is 20045 yuan, and the average annual insurance cost is 6681 yuan.
Maintenance cost:
As a pure electric model, the Audi Q2L e-tron is much cheaper to maintain than a traditional fuel vehicle. The maintenance cycle of audi Q2L e-tron is 20,000 kilometers, and the basic maintenance only requires a series of inspections of the vehicle, and the cost is about 300 yuan. All that's left is some consumables that need to be replaced, including spending 700 yuan to replace the brake oil every 20,000 kilometers, and spending 550 yuan to replace the air conditioning filter at 40,000 kilometers.
So if we assume that driving 20,000 kilometers a year, the total maintenance cost required for driving 60,000 kilometers in three years is about 3550 yuan, and the average annual maintenance expenditure is only about 1200 yuan.
Electricity:
According to our test results, audi Q2L e-tron power consumption is almost 14.7kWh / 100km, if we assume that the annual driving range is 20,000 kilometers, half of which is charged at home, the current average price of household electricity is 0.56 yuan / kWh, and the remaining half is charged in the public charging pile, which we calculate according to 1.7 yuan / kWh.
Through calculations, we conclude that the Audi Q2L e-tron in the hypothetical situation, the annual electricity cost is almost 3322 yuan, and it only costs 276 yuan to charge a month, which can be seen that the Audi Q2L e-tron as a pure tram is still relatively economical in terms of electricity costs.
summary:
By adding up the insurance cost, maintenance cost and electricity cost, we conclude that audi Q2L e-tron in the case of not calculating such soft expenses as parking violations, the annual car maintenance cost is almost 11203 yuan, the average monthly car maintenance cost is 933 yuan, although compared with some of the main economic saving electric cars, there is still a certain gap, but it can save more than half of the car maintenance costs than the same level of fuel vehicles, which is a relatively satisfactory achievement for this car.