Mr. Liu of hangzhou drove a new energy vehicle with a purchase price of less than 200,000, and last year there was a small accident — the former bumper, the left front door, pillar a, the rear view mirror — that needed to be replaced。
Over 30,000 maintenance offers from 4s. Mr. Liu, in the presence of the after-sale consultant, calculated a simple elementary school mathematics issue: a car repair would amount to a lump sum of three years'saved oil to 4s。
First, the maintenance costs of the new energy truck are on the table。
The data released in january 2026 by the institute of automotive technology of the central american society for the study of automotive technology are not subject to scrutiny — the “maintenance burden index” for new energy vehicles is 27. 66, and the fuel vehicle is 20. 86, more than 30 per cent higher。
However, the more stimulating figure is behind: the single-unit zero-to-zero average of power cells is close to 50 per cent, and a $200,000 car changer requires more than 100,000 batteries. The zero ratio of some of the lithium car types was even 90 per cent。
Zero-to-one is the price you're going to pay for this car to be broken down into parts. The main fuel truck has been scolded for years in the range of 300 to 400 per cent, but the new energy truck's game is not "how much more than the total cost of the spare parts than the whole car," it's "the part that happens to be broken is the most expensive of the entire chassis."。
It's broken. It can't be fixed。
This is the first mountain to be covered by the largest, roughest and most unstoppable maintenance bill for a new energy truck。
One of the tails of the fuel vehicle age may be the removal of the safety bumper gold spray paint and the spare parts may be replaced separately. However, in order to reduce manufacturing costs and reduce the weight of vehicles by one-time pressure, large areas of the new energy vehicle are covered by integrated casts — the entire back of the vehicle is pressured by a whole aluminium alloy. Breaking an angle means breaking the whole base。
There's no possibility of fixing this position. There's only one option. Integrated casting companies saved the manufacturing costs of the welding process — inputs from a cast island could replace hundreds of welding posts — but the money saved did not remain in your pocket. It was withheld from your maintenance order after the sale。
Batteries, not to mention。
It's not only expensive, it's expensive enough to get insurance companies to start recalculating. A $200,000 tram cost more than 100,000 battery replacement. In the event of a collision, if the chassis is scratched, if the battery bag is slightly deformed, even if the core itself is not broken, the maintenance programme at 4s will replace the battery bag as a whole - because the safety gap between the cores is a millimetre-calculated vehicle grade requirement, the reassembly after being removed does not guarantee sealing and dissipation of the original plant, nor does the manufacturer allow the maintenance plant to replace the individual cores separately。
This is not a matter of technical impossibility, but of impermissibility within the system of authorizations。
Speaking of authorization systems, this is the third mountain。
Fuel trucks can be picked up at any maintenance plant in the streets and most problems can be solved by a skilled gold master with a lift. However, the maintenance of high-pressure systems for new energy vehicles must be authorized by a battery plant or a car company, which can only use the plant's direct supply spare parts. This "close" is the core of after-sales profits for a car。
The māori rate for the sale of a car may be single-digit or even negative, but the māori rate for the sale of spare parts is between 30 and 50 per cent easy. You've saved three years of your oil money, and you'll be back with a year's insurance premium plus one maintenance。
There's an algorithm that helps you get these hidden costs out of front before you buy a car。
Next time we go to a test drive, we don't watch the miles, ask for three numbers:
What's the zero-sum ratio of the car, the price of the battery unit is a few percent of the price of the whole car, and how much more time is spent on changing a battery here than outside third-party repair shops。
Sales may not answer immediately, but the question itself will allow you to read an additional page of the maintenance manual before signing the contract. The page that you jumped over is where the car is worth real money in three or five years' time。
[reference data]
Zero per cent ratio and maintenance burden index, 2026, institute of automobile technology, china
Ningxia political association, breaking the new energy cars, "the price of cars."
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