Economic Daily: Will extended-range vehicles become less popular in the mainstream market?

Currently, many extended-range electric vehicles have surpassed the 400-kilometer mark in terms of pure electric range, and some are even approaching 500 kilometers. In other words, the fierce competition in the industry is pushing extended-range vehicles to transition from "big fuel tank, small battery" to "big battery, small fuel tank." This technical optimization route of "reducing range extender, increasing pure electric" not only retains the core advantage of extended-range vehicles in "no range anxiety," but also significantly improves the user experience of pure electric vehicles, essentially aligning with the logic of pure electric technology. As a result, the unique advantage of extended-range vehicles in controlling costs with small batteries and alleviating anxiety with fuel supplementation will gradually disappear, and they will have to compete head-on with pure electric vehicles in terms of "range, cost, and user experience." The inevitable outcome will be pushing the entire category into a more awkward situation: making people realize that perhaps going directly to pure electric is more economically rational. In other words, extended-range products with long pure electric range will eventually fade out of the mainstream market sooner or later.