Is Lexus UX 300e reliable? Free model 3, EQC, My Step and Electronic Creation Store.

Recently, I went to the 4S shop to see Lexus UX 300e, Tesla Model 3, Mercedes EQC, Jaguar I PACE and Audi e-tron, and shared my feelings with you. Model 3, EQC, I PACE and e-tron have been in the store for a long time, and UX 300e didn't arrive until this week (May 30th). The first part I shared introduced the basic situation of UX 300e, and the second part introduced the characteristics and terminal feelings of UX 300e, Model 3, EQC and other electric vehicles.

Positioning compact pure electric SUV；; The first mass-produced electric vehicle in Lexus history; NEDC has a comprehensive cruising range of 400km, and its main sales model is Chunyue version of 362,000.

Although UX 300e is Lexus's first mass-produced electric vehicle, Lexus's investment in electrification technology started very early. Toyota Group has its basic principles in promoting products, such as reliability and value preservation, which are the foundation of the company. Even a super sports car like LFA has a much higher rate of preservation than Mercedes-Benz SLS.

Most OEMs have increased their investment in electric vehicles, which began with CARB (California Air Resources Board) promoting automobile environmental protection. In 1990s, CARB adopted the "Zero Emission Vehicle" integral policy, with the deadline of 65,438+0,998.

General Motors: Pushing forward the mass production process of pure electric vehicles and finally stopping the project.

Honda: Considering that the time for electrification is not yet mature, developing cleaner engine technology from a practical point of view also meets the requirements of reducing emissions and fuel consumption.

Toyota Motor: Two new energy vehicles, RAV4 EV pure electric and Prius hybrid, were launched. The former started mass production from 1997, and its sales continued until 2003. The cumulative sales volume of the latter is as high as10 million units, which is legendary.

Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW have adopted the strategy of continuously optimizing internal combustion engines in the short term and exploring hydrogen fuel in the long term. German companies have done a lot of research, but not much mass production.

Toyota RAV 4 EV

The history of American market experienced several major electrification waves in 1960s++09 10/0s,190s and190s, but they all ended in failure. Electrification has always been the waterloo of car companies. If R&D expenses are invested in electric vehicles, reducing investment in traditional vehicles will lead to insufficient product competitiveness. Rushing to launch an electric vehicle with poor reliability and poor preservation rate is also eroding the reputation of the brand and undermining the enthusiasm of dealers.

Since the 1980s, Toyota has independently developed electric vehicles and other forms of new energy vehicles, and launched new cars cautiously and rhythmically. And its hybrid models, such as Prius and lexus ES hybrid version, surprise you with their high hedge ratio. This is the basis for enterprises to maintain high investment in new energy for a long time.

However, since 2005, the Lexus brand, which has been working hard in the hybrid field, as a pure electric vehicle, can fully inherit the technology accumulation and maintain its reliability?

The key technologies such as battery, motor and electronic control in the technical route of pure electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel cells have a lot in common-Lexus' technical accumulation in battery and motor can also be applied to pure electric vehicles.

Pure electric vehicle can be regarded as a simplified version of hybrid electric vehicle, and its complexity and realization difficulty are actually lower than that of hybrid electric vehicle.

In J.D.Power's Vehicle Reliability Research (VDS) ranking, Lexus ranks first all the year round.

UX 300e is built on GA-C platform of TNGA architecture, which can inherit the reliability advantage of fuel version. As the first luxury pure electric vehicle, everyone is more concerned about the reliability of "new things on pure electric vehicles".

The reliability of pure electricity can be summarized as three points: whether the battery is safe, whether the life is long, and whether the charging is worry-free.

UX 300e has a functional structure outside the battery, which can play the role of buffering and absorbing energy when it is hit, ensuring the battery monomer and high-voltage circuit.

At the same time, a box beam reinforcement structure is designed at the bottom of the battery as a part of the car body frame to protect the battery from road interference.

In addition to these "visible to the naked eye" hardware designs, UX 300e also upgraded the conventional double monitoring of battery-total voltage in the industry to triple monitoring of battery-battery pack-total voltage, and one more inspection would be safer.

With the increase of the number of charge and discharge cycles, the capacity and discharge power of lithium battery will decrease, which will give users a feeling of reduced battery life and weak power, and then bring an intuitive feeling that "this car is not reliable". Therefore, it is urgent to improve battery life.

The UX 300e controls the upper charge limit in an area that is not easy to age, thus extending the battery life. This means that to achieve the same cruising range, the UX 300e needs to be equipped with more batteries and pay higher costs. The advantage is longer battery life.

Thanks to these technologies, the battery decay rate of UX 300e is better guaranteed after 10 years.

There are three main points in worry-free charging: pile, charge and guarantee.

Pile: UX 300e presents 7KW AC charging pile.

Charging: UX 300e battery heating system is more useful in cold areas, which will greatly shorten the charging time. At the low temperature of MINUS 30 degrees, the battery can be charged by 20% to 90% by using household AC charging piles, which can not only ensure full use at night, but also ensure early use; If there is no battery heating system, the charging time will be as long as 20 hours.

Warranty: Power battery, drive motor and motor controller provide free warranty for 8 years or 200,000 kilometers.

After learning about UX 300e, share my feelings about seeing UX 300e, Model 3, EQC, I PACE and e-tron in a 4S shop recently.

Important words say first:

The driving characteristics and intelligence of electric vehicles can only be truly felt when they are experienced in stores. Model3, UX300e and EQC are all worth your experience in the store.

For electric vehicles, brands that promise to keep their value are preferred; Brands with stable terminal price and reputation are preferred.

Tesla and Lexus are two brands that I experienced very well in the store.

The fun of buying Model 3 is that OTA is often upgraded, which is as interesting as buying iPhone.

Sales recommended sentry mode and dog-loving mode. Sentinel mode can sound an alarm and record when the bad guys approach and invade. When the pet is locked in the car, the dog-friendly mode will control the air conditioner in the car at the most comfortable temperature and keep the air circulating.

The 420,000-performance high-performance version (P version) has been booked, and the car will not be picked up until at least the first quarter of next year. The short-lived version can be delivered in 2-4 weeks.

In the past, the price increase of different car paints was different, and now Tesla is unified. Black does not increase the price, and other colors increase the price by 8000. The interior is divided into pure black and white black, and the white black interior is increased by 8000, while the pure black interior is not increased.

18 inch rim does not increase in price, and 19 inch rim increases in price by 6000.

Autopilot autopilot will increase the price by 56,000. If you don't choose a car for the first time, you can drive it later.

Home charging service package increased by 8000 yuan. The down payment ratio is 15%, and the annualized rate is about 4%.

Others: Tesla's pre-sales service is good, but its after-sales service has been spit out.

Overview of Lexus family service. No brand of 4S shop sales will send customers to your door, and when you disappear from their sight, it will be over.

We visited several 4S luxury stores, and Lexus was the only one that asked us if we wanted to drink water-drinks, mineral water or tea. We can choose. The salesman also asked us if we needed to bring a bottle of drink on the road in hot weather. I have read some articles that regard Audi Q2L e-tron as a competing product of UX 300e.

The cruising range of Q2L e-tron is only 265km, which is slightly smaller than that of UX 300e and completely different from that of Lexus users. The biggest user intersection of UX 300e is model 3. Potential customers who go to the store to see UX 300e have several characteristics. They have seen Model 3 or are going to see it. Relatives, friends and colleagues drive Lexus; There is at least one car at home, and many girls come to see the car, which is of great value. The topic often asked is whether this car is imported and its reliability is good; The topic that male users have been asking is the value preservation of this car? You can feel what users who buy UX 300e are pursuing by listening to their questions.

The UX 300 e is imported, imported, and the whole vehicle is imported. Reliability is better than domestic electric vehicles, and workmanship is better than Tesla. If the weather is too cold or too hot, and the display screen of electric vehicles such as Tesla is too slow or inoperable, Lexus will not appear.

There are two versions of UX 300 e, 362,000 and 385,000. The main difference is the configuration of Mark Levinson stereo and head-up display. The pure yue version of 362,000 yuan is worth considering. If you go for a test drive, you can focus on the manhole cover (comfort), silence, seats (thick front row and long rear row), air conditioning (quick cooling) and voice recognition-these are all features that UX 300e can experience. Compared with Tesla Model 3, UX 300e prefers comfortable settings and practical driving in the city. Some unexplored parts, such as 10 airbag, high-strength steel, etc. If you are interested in sales, I will introduce you. You can try the electric version and the fuel version when you enter the store. Compared with other brands, UX 300e has more advantages in acceleration and smoothness, and is quieter than UX fuel version.

Lexus UX 300e has many choices in financial policy, because it is more favorable to use its own financial company instead of banking channels.

1 You can see the difference by comparing the basic financial policies with 362,000 UX 300e and 272,000 Model 3.

The lowest annualized rate of Lexus is 1.04%, and that of Tesla is 4%, with a difference of 2.96%. The highest annualized rate of Lexus is 2.64%, and that of Tesla is 4.33%, with a difference of 1.69%. If the loan is 200,000 yuan, the interest difference between 1 year is 5920 yuan.

Lexus also has a financial policy that worries me. 0 interest rate paid in 0 month, 2 years, 50% for the first and last payment, only 3000 handling fee. It is equivalent to a loan of nearly 200,000, and it is only 3,000 in two years. The two-year real interest rate is about 1.5%, and the annualized rate is about 0.75%. By way of loan, 50% of the balance is deposited in Alipay minus 3000 handling fee, and you can still make money. (The actual rate is about 1.5%, the annualized rate is about 0.75%, and deposits and Alipay are relatively high. )

3 lease mode, which is novel and tortuous. The policy is that the down payment is 36,000 yuan (10% down payment), the monthly payment is less than 5,000 yuan, and the financial lease enjoys a three-year 55% rescue rate repurchase guarantee. At present, Tesla does not have this policy; Mercedes-Benz EQC has a similar policy, with down payment 15% and residual value of 50%. The main purpose of this strategy is to ensure the residual value of used cars. At present, the residual value of used cars after three years of fuel vehicles is generally around 60%, and the residual value of electric cars is much lower than this, even the used car market in Hu Axiang doesn't like to accept it. This policy is equivalent to the user buying an option through a financial loan and enjoying the right to sell the car to the manufacturer at a residual rate of 55% in the third year. If users don't want to sell after three years, they can extend the loan. Everyone usually buys a fuel car with a loan, so this leasing policy is equivalent to an additional value-added service.

After-sales guarantee of UX 300e. Lexus has a strong after-sales service, which is not only a long-term warranty and maintenance commitment for the whole vehicle and Sandian. I went to this store, and buying a car, licensing, installing charging piles and subsequent maintenance services were all one-stop, and someone was in charge. For example, install charging piles at the door for free to help users coordinate with the property.

Many electric vehicle brands, even if they are as strong as Tesla, are strong before sales and not after sales. For example, this article talked about blowing from Teutonic to Teutonic, and it was only sold once-written seven days after Tesla Model 3 picked up the car? . Tesla Model 3 is not a place to sell and take, and it can only be 400 after sale. Sales consultants are only responsible for sales, and non-direct sales are slow. This situation will not happen to traditional car companies with 4S stores.

During the period from April 27th to August 3rd, 20201,the existing Lexus owners or Toyota owners in China will receive an additional subsidy of 10000 yuan when purchasing the replacement UX 300e. Others: the price of Lexus terminal is relatively stable (1 Tesla is reduced by 50,000-70,000), which ensures the value-added rate of used cars.

There are two cars in front of the main entrance of Mercedes-Benz 4S shop near Shunyi Airport, one is EQC and the other is V-class. Both cars are suitable for villas. Compared with EQC, sales students are more willing to promote V-level and vito. Mercedes-Benz Vito, the most entry-level luxury MPV, has less than 300,000 naked cars. V-class, it will be replaced soon, and the price in the store is very low, and the price of naked cars is in the early 500 thousand. EQC's current entry guide price is 580,000, which is slightly favorable. The selling points recommended by sales students are safety (body structure), comfort (air suspension) and 50% three-year insurance premium rate commitment.

When I was searching for EQC articles on Zhihu, I was surprised to find the news that Cheju.com offered a 4.7% discount to Jaguar I PACE. Leave the Mercedes-Benz store in Shunyi and drive to Jaguar store.

I PACE, offer 370 thousand, not fake news. The lower the price, the lower people's confidence in the product.

Zhihu has a question/question /3565744 10/ answer /905583499? (Audi Q2L E-tron has a cruising range of 265km, and the cruising range is so low that the price is 226,800. What is the competitiveness of the same level? )。 When I arrived at the store, I found the Q2L e-tron brand with a 30% discount. The e-tron of a large SUV like Audi doesn't seem to be very secure. The starting price of the listing is 700,000, and now the store says it can win more than 500,000.

Summary: Only Lexus UX 300e (a car from a 4s shop) and Tesla Model 3 (a colleague's car) are tested, but there are differences in driving experience and details, one is biased towards comfort experience and the other is biased towards sports technology. One is more meticulous and the other is bolder.

PS, electric vehicles must be seen in the store, and policies such as salvage value, finance and after-sales must be asked in the store. This information is hard to see on the media platform. It is difficult to see the residual value and after-sales that everyone pays attention to.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.