Driving Towards the Future: The Demand for Longer-Range Electric Vehicles in America

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For Americans, the open road is freedom, but the need to stop and charge is seen as an intrusion.

Americans demand the longest ranges in the world, roughly a third more than the global average.

US road travel totals about 4 trillion miles per year, a third more than any other country.

The problem is that a car rated for 250 miles of range doesn't actually provide 250 miles of reliable range.

All of these factors together can easily reduce the usable range on a 250-mile battery down to 90 miles.

A little quirk of EV charging is that it's typically much faster to add a few miles of charge to a big battery than to a smaller one.

But this battery-maximizing strategy rests on the myth that supplies can't grow any faster, a notion debunked by a century of mass manufacturing.

Another way battery supplies are growing is with range-expanding battery chemistries that increase output using the same amount of key materials.

Giant EVs like the 400-mile-range Chevy Silverado pickup coming later this year have roughly the same lifetime environmental footprint as a gasoline-powered Honda Civic.

Longer ranges can help address range anxiety and make EVs more practical for longer trips as sought by a wider majority of American people.

Ultimately, longer ranges can have a positive impact on EV adoption in the US, as charging infrastructure continues to expand and battery costs continue to fall.

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