Quality Essential for New-Energy Vehicle Sales

dies are deducted. Up till now no domestic automaker has developed a star model that can compete with gasoline vehicles in terms of costperformance ratio. Without revolutionary breakthroughs in technology, there would be no such NEV model. Therefore automakers must pay more efforts to research and development.

Second, NEVs must be easy to use. Besides high prices, an important factor which discourages the purchase of NEVs is the inconvenience of charging. At the end of 2016, 1 million NEVs were reportedly running in China, but the number of charging piles was only one seventh of the volume. Building charging facilities in residential communities is still slow, and the existing charging piles are not well managed or fully used. It is even more unacceptable that in some cities NEV owners have to pay for both electricity and parking for using charging piles. The long charging time also makes NEVs less competitive than petrol cars.

Third, NEVs must also be safe. More than 100 years of motor history has proved that as people’s living standards improve, motor vehicles will inevitably be preferred. However, there are shocking car accidents. In the initial development period, NEVs, besides common safety problems in gasoline vehicles, have some additional safety issues. There is no absolute safety in the world, but it is the bounden duty of automakers to ensure the safety of their products. Only when NEV makers base the safety of their products on technological progress and strict management and try to make their products safer can the industry realize sound development.