Large pinch of salt required.
Party pooper 
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Just dont want you running out of electrons 
Abetterrouteplanner can be a helpful app as planning goes, it plays it pretty safe.
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As with them all. It’s really whatever it’ll do on the day, or the part of the day. I was sitting at a high speedish (50kWh) in the middle of nowhere at subzero doing 9kWh 
Luckily I could keep the heat pump (and Radio 4 ) on. But, it’s adventure after all 
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I wouldn’t get hung up about range anxiety Mark. It is a phrase that General Motors tried to trademark in an effort to promote their Volt hybrid car. The sales pitch being that you could always switch to petrol if your battery went flat.
Personally, I cannot see the point in rechargeable hybrids. Why lug a petrol engine around plus a full tank of petrol just in case your battery goes flat? Surely it is better invest in a larger battery EV?
And as to worrying about finding a charge point, almost every supermarket in our region has charging points (and sometimes free to use). I would find it more difficult to find a petrol pump.
My favourite route planner is a large 4x4 laminated wall map of France, gifted to me in the mid nineties by the manufacturers when I bought a series of them for my office in England. 
It helpfully has very few autoroutes on it of course and I back it up with Mr. Google on the pc to avoid those as much as I can.
I have a metal Michelin map from the 1960s that must have come from a garage. It shows similar information.
Celebrities in the states who own them are now starting to sell them and donate the sales proceeds to charities that Muskrat hates. Sheryl Crow is the lead in this.
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…isn’t this more to do with Tesla than EVs in general unless I miss the point?
…(but glad folk are ditching these things nevertheless…)
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That dont impress me much
Indeed
[cough] Shania Twain…
Interesting conversation with a colleague this morning. He was an early adopter, owning first a Zoë with 50 mile range, then another Zoë with a longer range and now an Enyaq. We entered the building together and he was relieved to make it this morning with just 8% charge - despite having EVs for about 5 years, he said range anxiety has never stopped or gone away.
I find this interesting in the light of some very bullish comments here about it, but then he feels secure enough with me as a friend not to have to pretend it’s ok.
To balance that, I have friends and a brother who take their ICE vehicles to the vapour in the tank so it can apply to people not just the type of vehicle, many trips over the years but none in the last 10 I would guess to rescue them with a jerry can of fuel.
I think we all have a limit below which we are not comfortable. I would be the same with my petrol cars. My Golf in particular can be a pain as sometimes it will tell me that I’ve got 50 miles left and then slowly work down every five miles or so but at other times five miles later it’s reading 10. For that reason I rarely drive any distance once the fuel light comes on. I can imagine someone with 8% being concerned, that’s normal behaviour to my mind. Range anxiety is not only something that happens to EV drivers.
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When I was commuting 650 miles a week, my diesel Mondel would get that, just, from a tank - quite often found myself heading to the local tesco to fill up on a Friday evening with 0 miles range having been showing for the last 10 miles at least.
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Just got back from a test drive of the Renault 5e, top of the range. First time I’ve ever driven an electric car so it took about 30 seconds to get used to. Got back to the concession to talk money etc, what they don’t tell you about is the obligatory assurance on the finance/LLD. However, they gave me a price on the mid range car (less power, lower range) and also on the demonstrator I’d just driven (3 months old, 2k on clock) for almost the same price per month. No brainer really 
and it’s available almost immediately 
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Congratulations! First impressions of an EV?
I’m not sure that’s much different from running a petrol car into the red on the fuel guage. Did he say why it was so low?
Possibly due to ICE owners getting a good “feel” for how long they can drive once the Bingo Fuel warning pings regardless of the heating/AC being on and the outside temperature not being a factor.
Oh, and the likelihood of there being a working fuel pump available for immediate use in the next town being better than 99% might be a thing as well.