I used to travel a lot by car, 20-30K miles x year for work. As part of my road trip SOP, I would normally stop and top off my gas tank 30-50 miles before I hit any major city. That way, if there was a traffic jam, accident, construction, or other delay, I'd have close to full tank to get me through with AC in the summer, heat in the winter and no fear of running out of gas.
More often than not it proved unnecessary, but there were multiple occasions where the practice saved me from running out of fuel in the middle of a busy interstate spur or bypass. Topping off like that in an EV on a long trip would add hours and hours to an already long trip.
“More often than not it proved unnecessary, but there were multiple occasions where the practice saved me from running out of fuel in the middle of a busy interstate spur or bypass. Topping off like that in an EV on a long trip would add hours and hours to an already long trip.”
That’s a good point, and it is actually MORE IMPORTANT in an EV to worry about traffic jams, as you will eat up battery charge trying to stay warm (or cool) in EVs, where’s that’s only a very small factor for normal cars.