The “Range Anxiety” Society

As we electrify all parts of life, battery reliability will become a bigger and bigger issue

Clive Thompson

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A picture of an electric car being charged. There is a grey charging nozzle sticking out of the charge port on the
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Recently, my six-year-old MacBook Pro was staggering on its last legs.

One of the chief symptoms of its impending demise? The battery would croak with barely two hours of use. I’d replaced that battery two years before, and already it was…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net