Auto & Transportation

In May, the retail sales of the automobile market have been released. The most beautiful young man in the new energy sales list is still Wuling Hongguang MINI EV, with an average monthly sales of 30,000 units, which convinced other new energy brands in place, and Tesla failed to eat it after all. The sales volume was cut as expected by the masses, and it was a complete failure. After all, if the production capacity is sufficient, when the car is ordered and delivered, this can also be controlled. Extend the angle of view, we will find that almost half of the TOP15 sales of new energy are A00-class models. Needless to say, the boss Hongguang MINI EV, as well as Benben EV, Chery eQ, etc., are sold several thousand units per month. the Lord. How come mini electric cars are so easy to sell?

That's right, it's easy to sell, the smaller the better.

Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bugatti...all the world's top luxury car brands you have heard of can be seen in the county towns of small cities in China's 18th tier, or simply at the entrance of the pigsty of Uncle Wang's house in the village. It's just that the size of these "luxury cars" are a lot smaller, and when you touch them with your hands, they are slightly stronger than the "paper-skinned" ones. These "short and powerful", unlicensed, unlicensed, motor-driven, hand-driving miniature electric vehicles have an unofficial name called "Old Scooter", and more popularly called "Old Man Le".

You don’t need to squeeze the bus when you travel. It’s convenient to pick up children to and from school. They are small and can shuttle in the vegetable market. They don’t worry about parking, and they are not afraid of rain or snow. More importantly, you can get on the road without a driver’s license and a special license, and the price is low. It can be said that "Lao Tau Le" takes the pain points of the elderly to death. Therefore, "Lao Tau Le" has become popular in recent years, not only in many Low-tier cities, townships, rural areas and other markets are selling well, and we can also see "Old Tou Le" intensively in the city center of first-tier cities.

Hongguang MINI EV sells more than 30,000 units per month, and the annual output of these old-fashioned music in Shandong alone exceeds 1 million units. The price is as low as a few thousand yuan, and as high as three to two million yuan. In places where the statistics are not available, the old man can be said to make a fortune in silence.

With the auto market being “integrated”, automakers are naturally itchy and unwilling to let it go when they see the sales volume of Laotou Le. But it is definitely not realistic to drive the car built for the old man. After all, there are not many old men who can pass Division 1, and even fewer can get a driver's license. But parking is convenient, the price is cheap, and you can walk as long as you want. There is still a need for the last mile to be protected from the wind and sun. Not only the old people, but the young people also have the needs.

Where there is demand, there will be man-made ones. For example, the mini-electric vehicle, Wuling Hongguang MINI EV, starts at 28,800 and has a range of 120km. According to DaaS-Auto, it has ranked first in China's new energy market for nine consecutive months. The Changan Benben E-star, which ranks behind model 3, starts at 29,800, has a range of 150km, and sells 6000+ per month. The seventh-ranked Chery eQ is actually the well-known Chery Ant. It was once a favorite model of many shared car rental platforms. It is still strong since its birth in 2016. It will land before 60,000 and have a battery life of 301km.

If the traffic accident is not too serious, the old man can actually live comfortably in his own field, after all, it is aimed at the elderly. However, in 2017, there were 830,000 traffic accidents caused by "Old Tou Le" across the country, 18,000 people were killed and 186,000 were injured. The main cause of most of these accidents is the driver's driving behavior without traffic awareness. You don’t need to take a test in Subject 1. How do you let the old men know the dashed solid line?

It is also because there are too many accidents, and most of them are the responsibility of the "old man happy", plus there are no specific laws and regulations, it is really going to happen, the old man lying on the ground is very helpless, so for a long time Since then, "Old Man Le" has been wandering on the edge of the law and exploring crazily.

On June 17, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology solicited opinions on the recommended national standard "Technical Conditions for Pure Electric Passenger Vehicles". The standard has increased the technical requirements for micro-low-speed pure electric passenger vehicles, which means that the "old-generation scooter" is expected to be incorporated into formal management from the regulatory gray area. In the future, the old man will have a license and a driver's license to open it. This also means that the "old man music" that has been quietly developed for so many years needs to compete with the mini pure electric vehicles produced by domestic car companies!

Seeing this news, perhaps those manufacturers that produce "BengBeng" have already begun to have fun. Is it possible that driving an electric tricycle has to take a D photo?