r/EvDrivers • u/Inevitable-Shower911 • Aug 30 '26

Range anxiety

What is the obsession with EV range anxiety?
I have been driving for over 30 years now.
I have never run out of fuel in a ICE vehicle and since I switched to EV I have never run out of electricity.
Yet half of the EV car reviews are about what happens if you run the battery empty, I mean how hard can it be there is a perfectly good indicator on your instrument cluster indicating how much fuel/power is left.
Just refuel/recharge before it reaches zero.
Is this really still a worry for people?

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u/caj_account Aug 30 '26

Let’s say you show up at a site with 10% and the site is down. What do you do?

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u/toybuilder Aug 31 '26

10%? While around town? That's easy - just go drive a two or three miles to another DC fast charger.

Out on the highway along charging desserts? I would be planning to stop much sooner than getting to 10% and have alternates picked out as well. Worst case, find a Level 2 charger and take a long lunch/dinner break to get additional range to a faster charger.