250 km charging queue for 3 hours, high-speed charging during the Spring Festival is difficult to become a classic case

On February 15, the China Consumers Association released a public opinion analysis report on consumer rights protection during the Spring Festival. The report pointed out that "high-speed charging is difficult and there is no solution" has become a typical case of consumer rights protection during the Spring Festival.

According to data released by the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance (referred to as the "Charging Alliance"), there will be 340,000 new public charging piles in 2021, and 1.147 million public charging piles have been built by the end of 2021, including 470,000 DC charging piles. , 677,000 AC charging piles. At the same time, the number of swap stations in my country has grown rapidly, from 555 at the end of 2020 to 1,298 at the end of 2021.

According to data from the Passenger Federation, the retail sales of new energy vehicles in China will be 2.989 million in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 169.1 percent ; data from the Ministry of Public Security shows that the number of new energy vehicles in China will reach 7.84 million by the end of 2021, of which the number of pure electric vehicles will be 6.4 million. . From the data comparison, it is not difficult to see that when new energy vehicles grow rapidly, the charging infrastructure is also accelerating the layout, but the speed of charging facilities layout is far from keeping up with the speed of automobile production. In this context, the problem of new energy vehicle charging is becoming more and more difficult more prominent.

CCTV Finance once reported that a new energy vehicle owner who returned from Shenzhen to Hunan during the National Day holiday spent more than five hours charging the car in the Leiyang service area. sixteen hours. The owner of the car said: "At that time, I checked the navigation and decided to go home temporarily, and I walked relatively smoothly along the way. When I arrived at the Leiyang service area, I had to charge some electricity. As a result, when I arrived at the charging station, many cars lined up there. Charge."

Following the National Day holiday, the 2022 Spring Festival new energy vehicles ushered in the "big test" again. On the eve of the Spring Festival on January 29, CCTV reported that during the first Spring Festival holiday when the new energy vehicle market broke out, the number of new energy vehicle trips in my country may double. At the same time, the daily charging peak of expressways appeared in advance, and the State Grid predicted that some expressways would still be queued for charging. Shi Shuanglong, operation and monitoring director of State Grid Electric Vehicle Service Company, said that from the perspective of the daily charging capacity of expressways, the charging stations on some popular expressways have been operating at full capacity. It is expected that the maximum daily charging capacity during the Spring Festival will reach 1.4 million KWh. nearly doubled from last year.

According to reports, Guangdong Province has installed more than 500 charging piles in major high-speed service areas before the Spring Festival this year. At present, there are more than 1,800 high-speed charging piles in the province. In Shandong and other places, emergency charging cabins are also officially on duty during the Spring Festival travel period, and emergency charging cabins can be deployed in high-speed service areas at any time according to traffic flow. In Jiangsu and other places, the State Grid has also equipped emergency charging vehicles to relieve the queuing phenomenon of high-speed charging, and the charging network in the Yangtze River Delta is also accelerating its extension to townships.

Compared with previous years, new energy charging facilities are becoming more and more perfect, and charging piles can be found nearby in many places, which is why more and more car owners choose to drive new energy vehicles. However, during the Spring Festival travel period, new energy vehicles also appear to be powerless. According to media reports, during the Spring Festival, the new energy vehicles waiting to be charged in the Waxi service area of Jiguang Expressway (Guangzhou direction) have been lined up at the gate of the parking lot of the service area. During the period, some netizens revealed that during the Spring Festival holiday, car owners fought for charging piles.