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Destination within range

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Stop worrying about the range of electric vehicles — many of us simply don't drive that far.

Switch on the air conditioning in a modern electric vehicle and, as the battery level plummets, you will get a good idea of what 'range anxiety' is about. But an analysis of actual distances travelled by motorists suggests that people needn't be so worried — the number of drivers that will typically never exceed the range of an electric vehicle (EV) is much greater than the number of EVs that manufacturers will be able to produce for many years to come1.

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  1. Pearre, N. S., Kempton, W., Guensler, R. L. & Elango, V. V. Transport. Res. C doi:10.1016/j.trc.2010.12.010 (2011).

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  1. Duncan Graham-Rowe
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Graham-Rowe, D. Destination within range. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.312

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