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Under the promotion of policies, the annual sales volume of new energy vehicles has reached more than one million. However, owners who buy new energy vehicles in the early stage will face two major choice problems. Because the vehicle has been used for a long time, the battery decay is seriously insufficient, the owners either choose to replace the battery at a high price or sell it at a low price, obviously no matter how they choose, it is difficult for the owners to accept. What is more helpless is that car dealers have low enthusiasm for new energy vehicles and even refuse to accept new energy vehicles.

CCTV investigation reported that Shenzhen Mr. Zhang bought a brand hybrid new energy vehicle five years ago, after several years of use has obviously felt insufficient battery life, power loss is more and more serious. Mr. Zhang introduced that at first the vehicle ran more than 80 kilometers with full electric energy, but now it can only run 40 kilometers.

The guidance price of new car is 218,000 yuan, and more than 170,000 yuan will be landed after subsidy. Mr. Zhang came to the second-hand car market for inquiry, and the result he got surprised him very much. Shenzhen Dachang second-hand car city director Mr. Chen said, New energy vehicles are about 150 to 170,000, If used for three years, The residual value up to about 890,000, But if used for five or six years, Without collision, We buy the price is at most more than 40,000, More kilometers and bad car condition is only worth more than 30,000.

This means that the residual value of Mr. Zhang's new energy vehicle may be only 40,000 yuan. As the warranty is about to expire, Mr. Zhang went to 4S shop to inquire about battery replacement, and learned that if the warranty period expires, the cost of battery replacement is estimated to be 40,000 yuan.

BYD official customer service staff said,"As a private car, the power battery cells of new energy vehicles before 2016 enjoy a lifetime warranty, and the core components other than batteries are six years or 150,000 kilometers." If it is caused by over-warranty or non-product quality problems, it needs to be repaired at the customer's own expense."

Another consumer, Mr. Liu, who is Didi driver, bought a Beiqi new energy vehicle in Chengdu three years ago. He likes unlimited number and unlimited travel. The cost of use is also relatively low. However, he has obviously felt that the battery life has decreased rapidly so far, so he plans to replace the power battery to restore the original range. Mr. Liu told the media that 4S shop staff said it would cost about 50,000 yuan to change batteries, but it cost less than 70,000 yuan to buy a car. The owner thinks,"Now the battery is more expensive than the car, it is better to sell the car."

Changing batteries is better than selling them directly, but car dealers are cautious about closing cars, leaving owners in a dilemma.

CCTV interviewed a number of second-hand car dealers, who were worried that the recovered cars would be "smashed in their hands". Some of them said that the turnover rate of new energy used cars itself will be much lower than that of fuel vehicles. If the car is taken back hastily, it is likely that it will not be sold for months or even half a year. During this period, the risk of vehicle discount is also high.

According to the statistics of China Automobile Circulation Association, the three-year maintenance rate of new energy vehicles is generally lower than 40%, and the low maintenance rate has become a major feature of new energy used vehicles. The report shows that after three years of use, Tesla Model X residual value can reach 63.9%, BMW two PHEV models and BYD Tang DM to about 48%, most of the rest are below 40% residual value. BMW i3 has only 33% of its value, while BYD Qin EV and e5 electric vehicles are less than 30%.

Due to the low hedging rate, the current new energy used car market falls into a strange circle of "sellers don't want to sell, car dealers don't want to accept, buyers dare not buy".

More serious is that the first batch of new energy vehicle battery scrapping peak is coming. According to industry insiders, the service life of general automobile power batteries is 5-8 years. Restricted by early technical factors, the first batch of new energy vehicle power batteries put into the market are basically at the critical point of elimination, and the peak period of "retirement" of new energy vehicle power batteries is coming soon. According to the data of the National Big Data Alliance for New Energy Vehicles, it is estimated that by 2020, the accumulated retired batteries in China will be about 25GWh, or about 200,000 tons.

There are inconvenient factors such as charging problem and mileage problem in the use of new energy vehicles. In the end, the owner wants to sell and encounters the problem of too high depreciation rate. A large number of waste batteries are retired in a centralized manner, and the market is faced with the problem of how to dispose of waste batteries. The recycling and comprehensive utilization of waste batteries will also be a difficult problem that must be solved when new energy vehicles mature.

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