At the moment when a car is difficult to find, buying a car depends on robbery, which is definitely not an illusion, and it is not the wishful thinking of consumers or car companies.
From the widespread shortage of chips that began last year to the soaring cost of battery raw materials this year, both manufacturers and consumers are "victims".
Of course, there are also active "arch fire" roles, take HUMMER EV, from the release of October 2020 to the official delivery of the first batch of production cars in December 2021, a limited edition of edition 1 with an original price of 112595 US dollars (about 717252 RMB) was speculated to 299,000 US dollars on the Internet.
Based on the current exchange rate of 1USD=6.3702CNY, this Edition 1 limited edition was speculated to 1904569 yuan, an increase of more than 165%.
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Although this is very crazy, but from another point of view, what cannot be bought is always the best, and when there are gold lords who are willing to pay for rarity, the high price must be an eternal and unchangeable law.
In the DELIVERY PROGRAM FOR HUMMER EV, THE FIRST HUMMER EV EDITION 1 WAS SHIPPED IN SMALL QUANTITIES, WITH CURRENTLY 65,000 ORDERS FOR HUMMER EV.
Cheaper versions such as HUMMER EV 3X, HUMMER EV 2X, AND HUMMER EV 2 will be delivered as soon as this fall and at the latest in fall 2024, following the practice of cheaper and later scheduled deliveries.
Famous for the Gulf War and discontinued due to the double decline in word-of-mouth sales due to outdated products and excessive fuel consumption, the tough off-road brand that has left a symbol for the automotive world in the past 15 years has only one sentiment and faith left.
But in 2020, GM decided to give HUMMER a chance to be reborn, and the UItium Aoteneng pure electric platform returned HUMMER to the public eye, but this time it was the identity of an EV.
Pickup truck, UItium Aoteneng pure electric platform, EPA working condition pure electric endurance 563km, 0-96km/h acceleration time of 3 seconds;
Support GrabWalk crab mode, torque vectoring control of three-motor e4WD drive system, three-motor integrated 1000 horsepower;
350kW DC fast charge, variable damping adaptive suspension and air suspension, and Super Cruise's autopilot assistance system that supports off-the-hand driving...
This HUMMER EV is no longer the big macho of the 6.2L V8 big man who drank oil in the impression, and the off-road vehicle pedigree plus pure electric genes is one of the new routes planned by the electrification of GM's layout.
After all, in the face of Tesla Cybercruck and Ford F150 Lightning, HUMMER comes with its own brand recognition and sentiment, which is much lower than the cost of GM's rebuilding a new off-road car brand.
The pure electric HUMMER EV also gives consumers enough expectations, especially American users, so when the HUMMER EV Edition 1 is delivered in small batches, the car is speculated to be more than twice the price, and the crazy "car grabbing" behavior in the early stage becomes not surprising.
If HUMMER EV cannot be bought in China for the time being, and we eat melon harmlessly, then the situation that can be bought in China but is still difficult to deliver is closely related to the owners.
The most uncomfortable thing is that "buying a car = buying futures" seems to be the norm of the car buying experience in the past two years, which is especially obvious in new energy vehicles.
In fact, since last year, the situation of rising prices of upstream raw materials has become more and more intense, and OEMs have carried it this year, and this wave of price increases has actually come very late.
Therefore, those who want to buy a car in 2022 hurry up, according to the words of He Xiaopeng, the head of Xiaopeng: "The fastest quarter, the slowest may be three quarters, and the material cost problem will change."
Refer to this timeline, if you wait for the price of materials to fall and then buy a car, can you afford to wait?
Now the choppers are not fast - tank 500
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It was not listed on the announcement of the explosion order, but also by the scalper reselling order, the transfer of hands on a certain fish to earn a difference ranging from thousands to 20,000, forcing the tank official to issue a notification letter, prohibiting the order to resell to disrupt the order of delivery and market price.
This is the treatment of a phenomenon-level model that is not listed first, after all, the tank 500 has just opened the pre-sale, and the order is reported to have broken 20,000 orders.
The mixing of scalpers coupled with the heat of the tank 500 itself, if you throw this car in the entertainment circle, it is considered to be the existence of the top stream.
At a price of 335,000, you can have the new 3.0T large V6 twin-scroll increased longitudinal engine developed by the Great Wall, code-named E302, and also add a 48V light hybrid system, making the maximum power 354 horses, the maximum torque 500 Nm, and also using the latest 9AT gearbox of the Great Wall.
On the specifications of this powertrain, we want to buy it below 400,000, as if in addition to Hongqi, other brands can not do it for the time being, and even if it is Hongqi HS7, the gearbox is also 8AT.
The conclusion is that below 400,000, the basic operation of 3.0T+9AT+medium and large off-road SUVs is the only one on the market, and the uniqueness of the product is self-evident.
Of course, in the positioning of the tank brand, the tank 500 advertises itself as a medium-sized luxury business SUV, from this title, compared to the tank 300 is more inclined to the "wild" positioning, the Great Wall hopes that the tank 500 can achieve both civilian and military.
Household + commercial + hardcore configuration pocket bottom, so that the tank 500 further raised the image of the tank brand upwards.
Therefore, the length of the tank 500 is more than 5 meters, the width and height of the car are more than 1.9 meters, the same level as the Land Patrol, and it is really a big man in front of us.
Not to mention nappa leather massage seats, crystal electronic barriers, automatic electric tailgates, which are extremely extra points in visual and user experience.
In addition, in the medium and large off-road SUV, the rear central armrest of the tank 500 is also equipped with a set of noble control systems, adjusting the atmosphere lights, air conditioning, etc., and even the rear wireless charging has not fallen.
The carefulness also lies in the playability of the trunk, removing the bottom cover, with the tripod can form a temporary simple table, convenient for field dining, although the trunk space is not as large as the land patrol, but the experience of the second row is much stronger than the land patrol.
The Tank 500 shares the brand's quest for off-road performance, with the BorgWarner TOD two-speed all-wheel drive system and a central differential Mlock with mechanical locking.
If the owner chooses a front lock, the proper three mechanical differential locks are blessed, and there is almost no pickiness in the pattern, cross shafts, butterfly valleys, various continuous shell craters, and the results of the tank 500 in the peer measurements are remarkable.
Speaking of which, we are generally confident in the off-road performance of the Tank 500, but there is a problem, the minimum ground clearance of 224mm, and the smaller departure angle, make the tank 500's rear guardbar easy to scratch.
And here there is a spare tire (business version), as long as you rub hard enough, the spare tire scrapping and the rear bumper damage is sooner or later.
The solution is also very simple, it is still necessary to install a guard plate to do the protection in the later stage, if you need to carry out deep off-road work, suspension elevation + tire change is also inevitable.
However, the tank 500 has not yet been delivered, the user's pick-up number has been ranked to more than 50,000, a week ago this value was only more than 40,000, and the capacity climb also needs a process.
Assuming that the tank 500 is the same as the tank 300, the maximum monthly delivery volume can reach the level of 10,000 units, then even if the newly determined user has to wait for more than 5 months to pick up the car, and this is only the most ideal pick-up time.
Therefore, in the car is difficult to buy, the car is more difficult to deliver the current, tank 500 belongs to the same price of good things, want to order a car or have to grasp, online order resale in the first 20,000 numbers basically have to add 2,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan range.
Don't hesitate to come at fuel consumption - BYD Han DM-i
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As an electric vehicle user, you can clearly tell you that if you do not have a fixed or long-term rental car space to install a home charge, or it is inconvenient to charge nearby, especially if there is no brand overcharge, then try not to buy an electric car.
For example, there is no direct charging network such as Tesla supercharging station, Weilai or Xiaopeng supercharging station, because you will be tired of looking for third-party charging piles and waiting for charging bits, and the experience of using electric vehicles is greatly reduced.
But at a price of 200,000-300,000, if you want to buy a new energy car, and it is still a car, then I will recommend you to start the current hot BYD Han DM-i.
Pre-priced 216,800-29.28 million, plug-in hybrid power, free green card indicators (except Beijing), power loss fuel consumption of 4.2L/100km.
Before Han DM-i announced the pre-price, BYD made two price increases on its new energy models, including the Han series; and on March 16, the han DM and Han EV series increased by 5,000 yuan respectively, and the starting pre-price of the Han DM-i 216,800 must have included the price increase.
In October last year, the news of the increase in the price of BYD lithium batteries on the Internet has been revealed.
Compared with 2020, the raw materials for lithium batteries in 2021 have begun to rise, the price of cathode materials has risen by 200%, and the price of electrolyte has also increased by more than 50%.
In the end, BYD decided to raise the unit price of C08M batteries, increasing the previous Wh unit price by 20%, and the implementation time was from November 2021.
From this point of time, after the price increase of battery raw materials is associated with users, it is already from January 21, 2022, bydir official announcement effective date Of February 1, 2022, when the model increased by 1000-7000 yuan, and on March 16, the second wave of price increases of 3000-13000 yuan.
Therefore, if you want to buy a new energy vehicle, and pay more attention to fuel consumption, and want to have the endorsement of traditional large car companies, then Han DM-i is indeed the best choice in the 200,000-300,000 price range.
Synchronization can get a larger and more comfortable ride space than the Model 3 and Xiaopeng P7, no range anxiety, better interior materials and workmanship.
These points alone, the friendliness of the experience will soar, of course, on the use of full-scene voice, BYD Di-Link system is not as high as Xiaopeng P7 capability, intelligent driving assistance system DiPilot is not as strong as Xiaopeng's XPilot, but in the intelligent network part absolutely dump Model 3 a few streets.
Especially after the Model 3 rear-wheel drive version has risen to 279,900, the P7 480 model's more entry-level N and E versions are out of stock, leaving only 239,900 G version to start, at this time the minimum pre-price of Han DM-i 216,800 is very cost-effective.
Of course, it benefits from the 18.3kWh small battery pack configuration that saves a lot of costs, but the pure electric endurance of NEDC's 121km can also provide users with pure electric travel for 50 kilometers and 2 days in a single round trip.
In view of the fact that Han DM-i was officially listed on April 10, the new car was ordered a day earlier before the delivery of the new car, and the question of whether the price increase was followed up was irrelevant.
Clearly do not increase the price - WEILAI ET5
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In recent years, most of the attention paid to NIO is on NIO ET7, after all, ET7 launched the delivery of the first batch of new cars in Hefei, THE headquarters of NIO, on March 28.
But don't worry, Weilai ET5 plans to start delivering cars in September this year, the most important thing is of course that the car will not increase in price, and it has not yet decided to place an order, you can wait and see a wave.
As a new car on the NT2.0 platform, et5, like ET7, has the same Aquila super sense system:
Including 1 ultra-long-range high-precision lidar, 7 x 8 million HD cameras
4 x 3 million high-pixel high-sensitivity surround view cameras, 1 enhance the perception of the main driver
5 millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic sensors
2 high-precision positioning units with V2X vehicle-to-road coordination
In NIO's planning, NAD full-stack autonomous driving technology will gradually cover the full coverage of high-speed, urban areas, parking and power-up scenarios.
The four NVIDIA Drive Orin chips have finally reached 1016TOPS, which is 7 times that of Tesla, and the software adopts a subscription payment model of 680 yuan / month.
In the ET7 delivered on March 28, the ACC, LCC and ALC have been activated in the car, and the ALC is the automatic lane change control of the lights.
For intelligent driver assistance systems, ALC is a more advanced driver assistance capability, which Nio did not previously announce as standard.
In order to deliver on time, NIO can make the vehicle only support basic functions such as ACC and LCC in the early stage, and the OTA ALC can be used in the later stage.
Delivery ET7 achieves default loading, directly adding lateral perception to the functions of the NAD's early delivery, which is undoubtedly a surprise.
Therefore, when the WEILAI ET5 opens delivery in September, this set of standard NAD will also appear on the new car at the same time, and even with the mass delivery of ET7 in this half year and the improvement of NIO OS, it is not excluded that the function of NAD will be more perfect, which is a good thing.
And the 328,000 ET5 battery pack is 75kWh, the CLTC has a range of 550km, and the motor combination of the front 150kW + the rear 210kW is the insistence of Weilai not to do a single motor, and the acceleration of 100 kilometers only takes 4.3s.
As a model of the benchmark Tesla Model 3, the starting price of WEILAI ET5 will indeed be slightly more expensive, but with the BaaS service, the early purchase of a car will reduce the budget of 70,000 yuan and convert it to a battery monthly rent of 980 yuan / month, which will be a lot less pressure on the owner.
However, compared with the two new cars ET7 and ET5, WEILAI will launch a new 866 model in May this year, and upgrade the 8155 car chip, 5G communication module and a higher definition 360 surround view camera.
At that time, the price of the new car may be adjusted according to the situation, in other words, the price of the new 866 this year may be raised.
Nio does not increase prices at present, and its vehicle comprehensive gross profit margin of 20.1% has a large relationship, the profit margin is large, Weilai chooses to cover the profit compression after the price increase of raw materials.
And Weilai made it clear that the BaaS service will not raise the price plan because of this, so for users who buy a car, although it is more expensive to buy Weilai, it is not necessary to be afraid of placing an order late and spending thousands of dollars more overnight, compared with Tesla's half-year increase of 20,000 or 30,000, or stable.
The environment of selling cars and buying cars in 2022 is far more difficult than that of 2021, not that cars cannot be sold, but that buying a car is either a price increase, or waiting for futures, and the car buying experience is undoubtedly greatly reduced.
And this year's users who intend to buy a car, you can start at any time, wait for the cost of the vehicle to fall and then start, I am afraid that the waiting time will have to be calculated quarterly.