5 easy ways to get more range out of your EV
Key takeaways
- These little tricks will help you spend more time driving instead of charging.
- Tesla Modern electric vehicles have come a long way since range anxiety was an actual concern.
- In cases where emergency braking isn't needed, regenerative braking will step in and create small bursts of battery charge and bumps in EV range.
These little tricks will help you spend more time driving instead of charging.
Tesla Modern electric vehicles have come a long way since range anxiety was an actual concern. These days, EV makers have to clear an EPA-verified range of at least 300 miles to be taken seriously. Sorry, Fiat 500e. Some EVs even boast a range closer to 500 miles. Still, for longer road trips or if you plan to be passing through an EV charging desert, it might make sense to try some techniques to squeeze a little more range out of your EV's battery. Beyond the typical ways to get more mileage out of cars in general, here are five ways to keep your EV going for longer between charging.
Porsche Instead of wasting all the kinetic energy generated from braking like in traditional internal combustion engine cars, hybrids and EVs can capture all that potentially lost energy and convert it into electricity that powers its battery. Each EV maker has its own way of doing regenerative braking, but the general idea is that the electric motors that propel the EV forward can also act as a generator that captures the electricity generated from slowing down.