With the electric car you currently need to plan the refuels a lot better, for instance I was planning a possible journey to see my parents, a distance of 266 miles and I’ll be wanting to drive sufficiently fast so will want two stops in the electric car on the journey. I found a new bank of Instavolt chargers has just appeared near my planned first stop, so, instead of waiting for a single rapid charger or finding it broken, I’ll be able to pull up to the bank of 8 rapid chargers & hopefully at least some of them will be working…. this is a major thing in the UK, finding chargers that are reliable & that are free to use when you arrive. Finding a bank of 8 just off a motorway junction is a major step forward (M40 J11 – Instavolt – 125kW Rapid chargers, so that cuts maybe 20 minutes off my journey time). 1st step of the journey is 103 miles & I’ll be leaving with 100% charge from home, so I can cruise at 70mph no problem.
When it comes to the second step of that journey, it’s a single 50kW rapid charger, it may be in use when I arrive, it may be broken, this is where the range anxiety would kick in, so I’m looking for a better option or other chargers nearby.
In the diesel I would simply fill up at the start of each journey, no range anxiety.
On the motorbike I’d ride it down to maybe 40 miles left in the tank before looking for the petrol station. Motorbike ranges are similar to the current crop of electric cars.