Public Electric Car Charging Stations May Go Largely Unused

March 8th, 2010 admin

“Range anxiety” — the worry that your EV will run out juice before you get to where your going — is a term that has been bandied about a lot recently… almost annoyingly so. From a common sense standpoint, it seems only logical that range anxiety is a real phenomenon. But since we have so few EVs on the roads right now, the fact of the matter is that range anxiety is, at this point, a made up concept …


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