#range-anxiety

#range-anxiety

It's a funny-looking acronym that is short for extended range electric vehicle. While shrouded in mystery to the average person, marketing managers and bigwig executives see EREVs as the future of driving. The recipe is simple. You take a dedicated EV platform and you add in a gas engine that purely acts as a generator to recharge the battery, not to drive the wheels. You get a familiar user experience, way less range anxiety, and hopefully even fewer emissions.

We see them more useful for larger vehicles, because basically, you remove your range anxiety, and then you can, you can get [the] longer distances which are driven by the American consumer,