Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation announced a batch of car manufacturers' recall plans, with over 33,000 pure electric new energy vehicles among the recalled vehicles for safety hazards out of more than 0.04 million vehicles recalled.
"Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" and the 2035 long-term vision goal outline new energy vehicles as one of the strategic emerging industries listed as the "new pillars of the industry system". Xinhua News Agency's investigation found that issues such as "product indicators are inflated, shifting blame to customers" and "companies have a market cap of billions without selling a single car" are gradually becoming more prominent in the current new energy vehicle industry. "False advertising" and "excessive hype" have become hidden concerns limiting the further healthy development of the industry.
Exaggeration, inflating numbers, shifting blame - Worries in the industry amidst the "hot" trends.
The new energy vehicle industry is still "hot." Data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics shows that from January to February this year, the production of new energy vehicles reached 0.317 million units, a year-on-year increase of 395.3%. The latest data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers shows that in the first two months of this year, cumulative sales of new energy vehicles increased by 3.2 times year-on-year. In February, sales of new energy vehicles increased nearly six times year-on-year. By the end of 2020, China's inventory of new energy vehicles reached 4.92 million units, an increase of 29.2% over the previous year, showing a trend of rapid growth.
But behind the high heat of the industry, there are also many hidden concerns.
The situation of 'exaggerated' and 'water-injected' product performance indicators occasionally occurs. Recently, an owner in Shenzhen who purchased the Volkswagen new Passat GTE model told reporters that the '56 km pure ...