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Range anxiety: what the evidence base looks like

12 publications, 0 of them trials and 0 syntheses. This page describes the shape of that literature rather than summarising its conclusions.

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What the evidence on range anxiety is made of Of 12 publications on this topic, the breakdown by study type: 12 other. 12other (12)
12 publications, by study type. Volume is not strength — the same count can be a settled question or a pile of commentary, and which one it is depends almost entirely on this breakdown. Harvested from PubMed and Crossref; publication type as recorded by the source.

What this literature is made of

A reasonable volume of literature, but weighted towards reviews and observational work rather than trials. That is enough to describe a phenomenon and rarely enough to establish that an intervention works.

The distinction that matters most is between synthesis and primary research. A meta-analysis pools trials and is the closest thing to a settled answer a field produces. A narrative review is one group's reading of the same material and can be selective without being dishonest. Counting them together, which most citation counts do, obscures exactly the thing you want to know.

When the range anxiety literature was published Publication years for the 12 papers on this topic, grouped into bands from before 2015 through to 2023 onwards. 2023 onwards10 papers2020-20221 papersBefore 20151 papers
Still active. The most recent paper here is from 2026, so this is a field where an answer written today may not hold for long. Publication years as recorded by PubMed and Crossref.

How this page is built

Everything above is computed from the citations this site harvested from PubMed and Crossref, not written by hand. When the weekly harvest finds a new paper on this topic, these counts change and the characterisation changes with them. That is the point: a hand-written claim about how strong an evidence base is starts decaying the day it is written.

Publication type is taken as the source records it. That is imperfect — journals label inconsistently, and a paper indexed as a "review" may be a systematic one — so treat the bands as approximate. They are accurate enough to distinguish a trial literature from a commentary literature, which is the distinction that matters.

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The strongest work on this topic

Ordered by study design first, then recency. The full set is listed in the references below.

  1. Revisiting Electric Mobility: How Individual Perceived Value Shapes Battery Electric Vehicle Adoption—Insights into Technophilia, Range Anxiety, and Battery Cost in China — Jia H, Zhao H, Uchiyama Y, 2026, journal article
  2. MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING WITH DRIVER SATISFACTION MODELING — CHERUVU AYESHA, Mrs.B.JYOTHSHA, Mr.P. VISWANATHA REDDY, 2026, journal article
  3. Modeling Electric Vehicle Adoption in Thailand: The Impact of Ecosystem and Policy Support via Perceived Value and Charging Anxiety — Suvittawat A, Suvittawat N, 2026, journal article
  4. Electric Vehicle Charging Station Location Planning Based on Range Anxiety in Last Mile Logistics in Yogyakarta — Haryanto Z, Afraah S, 2025, journal article
  5. Influencer-Mediated Range Anxiety Mitigation: Examining Social Media Marketing Pathways to Electric Vehicle Adoption in Vietnam's Digital Economy — NGUYEN T, 2025, journal article
  6. Systematic Planning of Electric Vehicle Battery Swapping and Charging Station Location and Driver Routing with Bi-Level Optimization — Chen B, Chen J, Feng H, 2025, journal article
  7. Charging after Lockdown: The Aftermath of COVID-19 Policies on Electric Vehicle Charging Behaviour in The Netherlands — van der Koogh M, Wolbertus R, Heller R, 2023, journal article
  8. Electric Vehicle Charging Sessions Generator Based on Clustered Driver Behaviors — Van Kriekinge G, De Cauwer C, Sapountzoglou N et al., 2023, journal article
  9. Evaluation of Electric Vehicle Charging Usage and Driver Activity — Mahlberg J, Desai J, Bullock D, 2023, journal article
  10. Optimal number of charging station and pricing strategy for the electric vehicle with component commonality considering consumer range anxiety — Yu W, Zhang L, Lu R et al., 2023, journal article
How much research is there on range anxiety?
12 publications are indexed here, of which 0 are trials and 0 are syntheses.
Does more research mean a stronger conclusion?
No. Composition matters more than volume — five randomised trials support a claim far better than fifty commentaries, and citation counts do not distinguish between them.
How current is this?
The most recent paper indexed here is from 2026. The set is refreshed weekly from PubMed and Crossref.
Why does this page not tell me the answer?
Because summarising a literature into a conclusion requires reading it, and doing that automatically is how confident nonsense gets published. This page tells you how much weight a conclusion could bear; the articles on this site do the interpreting.

References

Every citation below links to the original peer-reviewed record on PubMed or via DOI. Nothing here is a substitute for medical advice.

  1. Modeling Electric Vehicle Adoption in Thailand: The Impact of Ecosystem and Policy Support via Perceived Value and Charging Anxiety Suvittawat A, Suvittawat N · World Electric Vehicle Journal · 2026 · Journal article DOI
  2. Revisiting Electric Mobility: How Individual Perceived Value Shapes Battery Electric Vehicle Adoption—Insights into Technophilia, Range Anxiety, and Battery Cost in China Jia H, Zhao H, Uchiyama Y · World Electric Vehicle Journal · 2026 · Journal article DOI
  3. MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING WITH DRIVER SATISFACTION MODELING CHERUVU AYESHA, Mrs.B.JYOTHSHA, Mr.P. VISWANATHA REDDY · ETDT · 2026 · Journal article DOI
  4. Electric Vehicle Charging Station Location Planning Based on Range Anxiety in Last Mile Logistics in Yogyakarta Haryanto Z, Afraah S · Jurnal Teknologi · 2025 · Journal article DOI
  5. Systematic Planning of Electric Vehicle Battery Swapping and Charging Station Location and Driver Routing with Bi-Level Optimization Chen B, Chen J, Feng H · World Electric Vehicle Journal · 2025 · Journal article DOI
  6. Influencer-Mediated Range Anxiety Mitigation: Examining Social Media Marketing Pathways to Electric Vehicle Adoption in Vietnam's Digital Economy NGUYEN T · Journal of Economics, Finance And Management Studies · 2025 · Journal article DOI
  7. Optimal number of charging station and pricing strategy for the electric vehicle with component commonality considering consumer range anxiety Yu W, Zhang L, Lu R, et al. · PLOS ONE · 2023 · Journal article DOI
  8. Electric Vehicle Charging Sessions Generator Based on Clustered Driver Behaviors Van Kriekinge G, De Cauwer C, Sapountzoglou N, et al. · World Electric Vehicle Journal · 2023 · Journal article DOI
  9. Charging after Lockdown: The Aftermath of COVID-19 Policies on Electric Vehicle Charging Behaviour in The Netherlands van der Koogh M, Wolbertus R, Heller R · World Electric Vehicle Journal · 2023 · Journal article DOI
  10. Evaluation of Electric Vehicle Charging Usage and Driver Activity Mahlberg J, Desai J, Bullock D · World Electric Vehicle Journal · 2023 · Journal article DOI
  11. Electric Vehicle Charging Station Location Model considering Charging Choice Behavior and Range Anxiety Liu H, Li Y, Zhang C, et al. · Sustainability · 2022 · Journal article DOI
  12. Measuring Range Anxiety: the Substitution-Emergency-Detour (SED) Method Lin Z · World Electric Vehicle Journal · 2012 · Journal article DOI