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In the era when the automobile industry is facing 2.0 changes, the development of electric vehicles has become a hot topic in the whole industry. Some car companies think that electric vehicles are the trend that needs to speed up the transformation, while others think that electric vehicles are difficult to become the mainstream. After Honda denied the view that electric cars would become mainstream, GM's president also said: electric vehicles will not become mainstream until these three major problems are solved.

According to foreign reports, General Motors President Mark Reuss recently said that electric vehicles will not become mainstream until the three issues of mileage, ease of use (charging infrastructure) and cost are solved. According to GM's internal research results, mileage is the biggest obstacle to the development of electric vehicles. In addition, the lack of charging stations is the primary reason for those who consider buying electric cars but do not, and GM announced in May that it would build thousands of fast charging stations for electric vehicles across the United States.

Although the operating cost of owning an electric vehicle is lower than that of a fuel vehicle, which is equivalent to 1/3 of that of a fuel vehicle, the purchase price of electric vehicles is usually much higher than that of fuel vehicles because of the price of electric vehicles' batteries. Before battery costs are reduced, electric cars are also difficult to be accepted by consumers.

Previously, Honda CEO Takahiro Hashi poured cold water on the hot expectations of new energy travel in the future. in his view, the world's largest new energy market is now in unprecedented difficulties. I hope the whole industry will re-examine the aggressive investment in electric vehicles and self-driving technology.

At the same time, it said that the development of new energy vehicles is to reduce carbon emissions, not necessarily to focus on electric vehicles, gas-electric hybrid vehicles can still be, and it is planned that by 2030, Honda will focus on gas-electric hybrid models.

In fact, GM also has plans for future electrification, aiming to launch 20 new all-electric vehicles by 2023, including two electric models based on the Chevrolet Bolt. In fact, this is only forced by the situation, in the face of electrification transformation all over the world, as a major car company, there must be a layout in the field of electric vehicles.

The same is true of today's Toyota, Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler. Volkswagen, the world's largest automaker, is facing the most stringent emission reduction standards set in Europe, which will be implemented from January 1, 2020. according to the emission standards, Volkswagen could face a fine of up to 9.186 billion euros.

At last month's Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota Executive Vice President Shigeki Okayama said the company has no plans to introduce new technology because the commercialization of electrification and self-driving is long and challenging.

"most car companies are re-examining the schedule of the plan because they think it seems to go beyond the original plan," Mr Tashan said. "and from the beginning, we thought it would take time."

On the surface, Toyota and BYD cooperate to set up a new energy company and jointly build new energy vehicles for development. In fact, we can see that Toyota's plan does not attach importance to it, but is only affected by domestic double points, because most electric cars are sold in the form of OEM to sell pure electric models developed by partners. On the contrary, Toyota, the first hybrid car company, set up its first hydrogenation station in China as early as 2017, and began experimenting with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, which is planned to explore the domestic market in the three years from 2017 to 2020.

Electric vehicles may be the trend in the future, but they may not be the models that can quickly become mainstream at present. After all, the development of electric vehicles is not long-term, and all kinds of problems need to be solved. But gradual implementation is more conducive to the development of the automobile industry than forced implementation.

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