Do you have “range anxiety”? That’s the worry that you’ll get
stranded in an electric car because charging stations are too
few and far between, and it’s a major obstacle to greater public
acceptance of private electric vehicles. A pair of reports by
UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation look at ways to remake
L.A.’s vehicle charging amenities so that range anxiety plays
less of a role in shifting to cleaner cars. More on Electric
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private use in Los Angeles by 2015, so it’s clear that plenty of
people don’t find the relative rarity of charging stations as
opposed to gas stations much of an inconvenience. Most drivers
travel less than 35 miles a day in their cars, which is well
within the range of many electric vehicles assuming a single
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