06/05/2026
Range anxiety will last days not weeks
We don’t need 600 mile EVs.
One of the biggest misconceptions right now is around range and battery size.
People assume “Bigger battery, better car”.
But that only really applies in very specific situations.
The average person drives 15-20 miles per day, most cars sit parked over 90% of the time, and the majority of charging happens at home or work.
So in day-to-day life, you’re not “running out of range”.
Now, very large battery means more weight, lower efficiency and higher cost.
And for most people, that extra capacity is useless and creates waste.
It’s like carrying a full tank everywhere “just in case”, even though you only use a fraction of it daily.
Long journeys is where education matters most.
Yes, a bigger battery can reduce stops, but it also takes longer to charge and encourages inefficient charging habits.
In reality, the fastest way to travel long distance in an EV is drive, stop briefly as you would anyway, charge what you need and carry on…
Not sit waiting to fill a massive battery to 100%.
Designing cars around the extreme 1% use case (600+ miles) for non stop driving, doesn’t make sense.
Instead we need better education on how EV charging actually works, what real-world range looks like and how little most people actually drive.
Because once people understand that, range anxiety disappears, and so does the obsession with oversized batteries.
