Electric vehicle manufacturers declare the range of their cars based on the WLTP test cycle, originally designed to test conventional vehicles. Even though it has been updated to include electric and plug-in hybrid cars, it often leads to unreliable figures It is called “range anxiety”, and it is a real psychological condition that arises when drivers of electric vehicles see their battery charge dropping toward the psychological threshold of 20 percent while still far from their destination or from charging stations. It manifests as growing concern about being stranded on…
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