Range anxiety is a term you may have heard people mention when talking about electric cars. Putting it in the simplest terms, range anxiety is worrying that you don’t have enough charge in your car to make it to your destination. It is a feeling similar to that experienced by drivers of conventional ICE cars. Have you ever wondered if they have enough diesel or petrol to make it to the next fuelling station? Range anxiety is considered to be one of the major barriers to large scale adoption of all-electric cars.
In short, no! An average daily journey in the UK is less than 30 miles. The EVision cars with even the lowest range on a full battery will go up to 150 miles on a single charge. If you are planning to go on a longer journey we would recommend you using one of the charge point locator apps. ZapMap is a great app to plan your journey with before you set off.
The main strategies to alleviate range anxiety among electric car drivers are:
Even from the early days of the EVision electric car rental service, range anxiety has not been a real worry. In the modern age of the electric vehicles revolution, the cars can go further and the public charging network is far greater and growing all the time. This means that you can hire an electric car with great peace of mind. Don’t let unwarranted range anxiety get in the way of your electric car rental.
