Why it’s time to get over your EV range anxiety
by Inside Climate News from Ars Technica - All content on (#69CT7)
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Electric vehicle batteries keep getting larger, and the typical driving range between charges keeps growing.
The shift is partly a response to range anxiety"-the fear of being stranded because EV batteries don't have enough power to get to the next charging station-an idea so familiar in discussions of electric vehicles that it was spoofed in a Ram Super Bowl ad last month.
But this concern is unwarranted for a large share of EV customers, according to research from the University of Delaware, published February 21 in the journal Energies.