I happened upon the the phrase ¨range anxiety,¨which is used to describe the fear that your electric vehicle will run out of juice somewhere and leave you stranded. Though the phrase is not new, I noticed that it is suddenly appearing in a many places, such as this Vancouver Sun article about building a charging infrstructure and this New York Times article talking about getting people to overcome the range anxiety and buy an EV.

I´m wondering if the proliferation of EVs will result in the proliferation of new medications to deal with this new opportunity for anxiety. Chevy seems to be doing all it can to convince people that range is not something you need to be concerned about. We´ll see.