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Limited: What's the value of talking about "range anxiety" all the time?

Here are three important facts about gasoline: It is available almost anywhere around the world it has tremendous energy content Using it the way we do creates a whole slew of negative environmental and political side effects It's hard to beat the first two items with a non-petroleum alternative, but those negative impacts (oh, and questions about its availability in the coming decades) are forcing us to try and find one. As regular readers know, the two most promising longer-term solutions are plug-in electric vehicles and ... Read more →

Automaker Advice: How to relieve long-range anxiety and gain market share Domenick Yoney

Let's say you're a good-sized auto manufacturer about to release an all-electric car with around 100 miles worth of range and you want it to gain market acceptance (and market share) as quickly as ...

Nissan expects to double battery energy capacity by 2015 Domenick Yoney

2010 Nissan Leaf - Click above for high-res image gallery digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Nissan_to_double_electric_car_battery_capacity_by_2015'; If the ranges offered by the upcoming Nissan ...

STUDY: "Range anxiety" not based on rational thinking Jeremy Korzeniewski

Conventional wisdom would tell you that an electric car with a range of 93 miles can be driven up to about, oh, 93 miles or so before needing to be recharged. Apparently, most drivers aren't ...

At Witz' End - Range Anxiety Q&A II Gary Witzenburg

I really stepped in it last time by stating that GM never owned patent rights to Ovonic's NiMH batteries and never sold them to an oil company, and that no one sued Toyota. I believed those statements ...

At Witz' End - Range Anxiety Q&A 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

There was a lot of feedback (50 comments at last count) to my column on EV range anxiety, some thoughtful and intelligent, some not. The few who accuse me of being anti-electric vehicles, which I definitely am not, were not. Neither were the two (same guys each time) touting the idiotic conspiracy ...

At Witz' End: My night with range anxiety 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

I left the dinner meeting around 9:00, with home roughly 60 miles away...no challenge for an engine-powered vehicle, even relatively low on fuel. You can always find an open station. Not so on this 1997 night. I was driving an EV1 development vehicle freshly equipped with an experimental ...


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