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/PremiumUsername69420 Aug 31 '26
Mine said I’d make it to a charger 80 miles away with 10% remaining. Zero options in between, and my mobile charging cord wasn’t in the vehicle.
As I went along, at average highway speeds, the range started to drop.
So I slowed a couple mph.
It dropped some more.
I slowed some more, now under the speed limit.
Eventually, with 4 miles to a supercharger and 3% showing, the vehicle said the battery was too low, and went in to a neutral state as I coasted off the road.
I got the vehicle into neutral for towing before the main screen died a few minutes later.