NISSAN ARIYA
Best cure for range anxiety? Not a bigger battery but simply extended time in an EV
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WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT
It took Nissan 11 years to give us a second EV. Was it worth the wait?
The term ‘range anxiety’ first entered the OxfordEnglish Dictionary more than a decade ago and, according to the de facto authority on the language, its usage dates way back to the 1990s.
Even after all this time, many people are still living with a sense of disquietude, fearful that their electric car doesn’t have enough charge to get them to where they want to go.
Iknow of EV drivers who charge their cars every night, even when their batteries are at 50-80%. My dad, who is from Glasgow but now lives in the Midlands, says he wouldn’t buy an electric car in case he suddenly needed to drive up to Scotland.