The fear of running out of charge is one of the greatest barriers to the wider adoption of electric vehicles. However, studies suggest that this rarely happens in the real world. One study comprising 163,330 roadside calls for EVs revealed that only 2% were related to dead batteries. So even though range anxiety is very real, certain media reports may be overblown. More importantly, there are several safeguards in place to avoid this.
One of these is knowing that nearly all modern EVs have a buffer beyond 0% charge, similar to gas cars. In a recent range test, YouTuber The Ioniq Guy did exactly that, giving us a real-world worst-case scenario of how many miles a Hyundai Ioniq 6 would cover after the indicated range was 0%.
