The new model of "renting and not selling" is explored in electric vehicles

Absrtact: The subsidy policy for private purchase of new energy vehicles has made a huge breakthrough in recent years: on the one hand, several provinces and cities announced the introduction of a local catalogue in the near future; On the other hand, the state wants to integrate the local catalogue into a unified national catalogue. And with subsidies for private purchases of new energy vehicles, there has been a huge breakthrough in recent years: on the one hand, several provinces and cities announced the recent introduction of the local directory; On the other hand, the state wants to integrate the local directory into a unified national directory. And with the implementation of subsidy policy, more new energy vehicles will enter the household.





However, the electric car is not easy to use, is still a proposition to be proved. Condi Electric car Group brand manager Zhu told the 21st century economic reporter that the current domestic electric vehicle is still in the "only let you use, can not let you have" stage, because of its high price, short driving range, long charge time, inadequate charging facilities, battery pollution, and many other problems have not been fully resolved.





So, a number of electric vehicle manufacturers invariably began to develop a "rent-only" new business model.





June, Hangzhou space-time electric car rental business began to register online, time and Space Electric vehicle chief executive Director Xu Jingtao told reporters, less than one months, there have been hundreds of applicants. Meanwhile, Condi's car rental business with the community also received a 1000-person reservation.





is located in the new energy vehicle city of Hangzhou, Hangzhou is still not released its local subsidy directory, there is news that the catalogue will be announced this month. Space-time electric vehicle Its current business layout is divided into four: the whole car, power battery, electric vehicle matching and sales. In the vehicle aspect, the time and space electric vehicle and the Zhongtai automobile cooperation, the latter originally is Zhejiang a traditional automobile manufacture enterprise, later has transformed into the electric vehicle field, the Hangzhou first batch of 200 electric taxis which has been put into operation is provided by the Zhongtai.





Space-time electric vehicle products E20 is a smart two-seater car, full of electricity after the mileage reached 300 kilometers. This June, the car began to accept online rental booking, the current proposed rental plan is: Rent a year 1588 yuan/month, rent two years 1488 yuan/month, three years 1288 yuan/month. The rent includes insurance and maintenance costs, the owner also pay 8000 Yuan vehicle deposit and 2000 yuan traffic illegal deposit, currently has hundreds of people to register.





Condi Electric car Group for Condi Technology (Nasdaq:kndi) and Geely Automobile (00175.HK) joint venture, its brand manager Zhu told reporters, Condi Electric vehicle Group's current strategy is "rent not to sell." Recently, Condi Electric vehicle group in Hangzhou Xiangshan area to set up the first pure electric vehicle demonstration community, with 1000 people signed a group lease agreement, rent for each car 800 yuan/month, and all by the community. Residents only need to pay 3675 yuan/year insurance premiums, plus 1000 yuan of illegal deposit.





Xu Jingtao said E20 chose only to accept the lease and not accept the purchase because of the principle of customer responsibility. "If the customer buys our E20, if there is a problem in the use, the customer will complain." If we use the leasing model now, if the car has a problem, the customer can bring back the car to repair, or we can provide him with a new car first, such user experience is better. "Xu Jingtao said.





an industry electric car analyst also told reporters that he is more optimistic about the future of electric vehicles leasing model, citing the "low cost, can quickly expand the market."





, founder partner of Liu Yuan, an investor in space-time electric vehicles, believes that the biggest advantage of pure electric cars is that their cost of use is lower than that of traditional cars, and the leasing model is the best model to bring low operating costs and avoid high cost of cars.





while in the leasing model, Liu Yuan that large-scale promotion of business models may be better than the promotion of personal models at this stage.





Liu Yuan explains that there are two other advantages to promoting electric vehicles from the commercial field: one is that the electric vehicles in the commercial field are more fixed, and the siting of charging piles and power stations will be relatively easy. The second is that the commercial electric vehicles in the use of the number of vehicles will be significantly higher than the private car, so that the use of electric vehicles more cost-effective advantages.





Xu Jingtao told reporters that space-time electric vehicles are now in two areas to do large-scale commercial promotion. One aspect is and some fast hotels such as hanting, seven days, such as home and patch cooperation, by these Express hotel agent rental business, after the profit of 55 divided. Another mode is to cooperate with the logistics company, in this, time-space electric vehicle launches a van for the logistics use, its characteristic is the capacity is big, suitable for running transportation.





Xu Jingtao said that a number of logistics companies have received orders, "logistics companies like this car, the first is because through leasing to reduce their cost of car purchase, the second is the use of electric vehicles is very low cost." ”