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Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents (cleantechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents::Several state governors are fighting fear mongering as they attempt to reduce transportation emissions in their states.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Sounds like you are fear mongering.

From TFA:

While 76% of future EV owners worry about range, nearly 59% of current EV drivers report none.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

So 41% of EV drivers worry about it? That's an issue! I'm guessing only 5-10% of ice drivers every worry about running out of gas.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

What you're not addressing is that current EV drivers change how they drive, i.e. don't go on the same sort of trips the same way (if the various articles on that site are to be believed). This isn't addressing range anxiety, it's saying plan your trips around charging your car so we work around the problem. And the problem isn't "range" now - it's where are the fast chargers? It's getting better, but it's still hard enough to pull off that there are regular youtube and news articles about the hassles and issues doing a road trip in an EV. No one does the same sort of reporting on ICE because you can find gas stations just about everywhere every 5-10 miles just about anywhere you go, and where it isn't there is some reporting of the signs saying "last gas for 100 miles" or whatever. People know they can find a gas station, even if they're going into a rural area.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

So you're saying 41% of EV owners have range anxiety? That's a pretty significant portion...