Contrary to China, half of the Americans are unwilling to spend on electric cars! Is it because China is too strong?
Why don’t Americans love buying electric cars? Electric vehicles are known as a typical representative of green energy, and many people believe that this is the direction of future car development. Over the past few years, China, with its rapidly rising new energy technology, has seen the sales of new energy vehicles continue to rise to new highs. On the other hand, in the United States, which has always advocated green and environmental protection, the sales of new energy vehicles are not high and even have a declining trend. Why is this? With this question in mind, let’s delve into it below.
As we all know, the United States is referred to as a country on wheels. Nearly 90% of Americans can hardly live without cars because most of them live in suburbs far from city business centers. They need cars for daily commuting, shopping, and traveling. The majority of people travel over 100 kilometers a day, and the mileage for family trips on holidays even exceeds 500 kilometers. For gasoline cars, such mileage is not a problem at all as gas stations are everywhere, eliminating range anxiety. However, most electric cars have a range of about 500 kilometers, meaning that electric car owners need to charge at least twice a week, and cannot easily go on long trips because there are very few public charging stations in the US! In the United States, you can drive a gasoline car from New York to Los Angeles without a problem, but with an electric car, you might not even make it to Washington.
One of the main reasons electric cars are popular in China is because fuel is cheaper. Currently, the price of 92-octane gasoline in China has reached an average of 8.41 yuan, while electricity costs an average of 0.51 yuan per kilowatt-hour. Calculated for a 100-kilometer mileage, a gasoline car in China needs 7 liters of fuel, costing 60 yuan, while an electric car needs 20 kWh of electricity, costing only 10 yuan. In the United States, the price of 92-octane gasoline is 0.7 USD per liter, equivalent to 5 yuan per liter, and electricity costs an average of 1 yuan per kilowatt-hour. Calculated for a 100-kilometer mileage, a gasoline car in the US needs 35 yuan, while an electric car needs 20 yuan, with not a big difference