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Affected by the world environment and local policy factors, more and more enterprises have joined the field of electric vehicle manufacturing, which makes the development of electric vehicles a hot topic. A few days ago, a famous foreign media asked Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, to express his current views on electric cars.

In this interview, Bill Gates believes that in terms of current development, electric cars still have a high premium, and of course, with the development of cars, the spillover value of electric vehicles will gradually reduce to zero in the next decade. In this development process, he believes that passenger cars are the most promising, so more and more start-ups are starting to produce pure electric cars in large quantities.

However, Bill Gates said that in the development of this decade, the range of electric vehicles is still the biggest issue, and it is also the main factor to allay consumers' concerns about buying electric cars, including Tesla, the leader of electric car companies.

Although Bill Gates also revealed in the interview that he has just bought a Porsche Taycan, the design is really cool and he likes it very much, but it also has a high product premium. At the same time, if you want to choose this car to run long distances, then its charging compatibility and charging time will be a problem.

According to global electric vehicle data in 2019, only 2.21 million pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles were sold worldwide, accounting for less than 3 per cent of global car sales and an increase of 10 per cent year-on-year. Among them, pure electric vehicles account for 74%, plug-in hybrid vehicles account for 26%.

Bill Gates believes that if electric cars are to become popular, in addition to increasing their mileage, price reduction is also crucial.

Buffett, as a good friend of Bill Gates, also talked about the current development of electric cars. Buffett mentioned at lunch with Sun Yuchen, founder of wave field currency, that he agreed with Sun Yuchen's investment in Tesla. Although Buffett thought Tesla's CEO Musk was a great entrepreneur, he felt that Tesla was not a good investment company at present. It means that both Buffett and Bill Gates feel that the current era of electric cars is not "rampant" and still needs to be developed.

As Tesla has gradually become a "reformer" in the current automobile era, not only more and more new car manufacturers have joined the field of electric vehicles, but also many traditional car enterprises have increased their investment in the field of electric vehicles, hoping to compete with Tesla. Including Volkswagen, GM and other world auto giants.

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