'Range anxiety should be a thing of the past': AA out-of-charge callouts for EVs hit record low

Michael Holder
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Only five or six of the AA's 8,000 daily breakdown callouts are for electric cars which have run out of battery, fresh figures show

The AA has argued so-called 'range anxiety' should now be "a thing of the past" for drivers in the UK, as it today revealed the number of callouts to electric vehicles (EVs) which run out of battery has...

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