It’s really the only reason I haven’t bought one, as I regularly travel across Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and especially in the wintertime I understand the range is even less because of the cold.
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Travelling whatever distance requires energy. In combustion engines, your energy is your fuel, stored in your fuel tank. In electric engines, your energy is electric charge, which is stored in your battery. Gasoline contains a lot of energy, meanwhile batteries seem to be more limited in their energy-to-volume/weight comparatively. So, as opposed to stacking additional batteries or increasing the weight of the car, they require refueling more frequently.
On the plus side, the energy->kinetic motion is a lot more efficient for an electric vehicle, something like ~85% to gas powered cars at ~50%. But yeah. Refuel/recharge differs.
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