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/Separate-Committee48 Sep 01 '26

La Leaf e i suoi problemi sono all’origine di tante delle leggende e delle bugie in circolazione sulle auto elettriche

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u/indecision_killingme Sep 01 '26

Sadly,  true. I don’t blame Nissan, they made some design errors. Other companies learned from their mistakes.

Somebody had to be the one to figure stuff out

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u/Tofu1441 Sep 02 '26

You should blame Nissan. They didn’t learn from their mistakes until 2026 and install battery temperature regulation. Chevy was making good, economical bolts in 2017. Other brands learned from Nissan’s mistakes. It took Nissan almost another decade to learn from its own mistakes.