Yep. And I don't know that many people that have run out of gas.. though I've hit reserve on the gas bike several times, and I've put about 10.1 gallons into the Insight's 10.4 gallon tank trying for 700 miles.
Personally, I don't think I will ever run out of range on an EV. I'm too cautious to push it that close, and if I know my round-trip distance will be longer than what the bike will support then I'll take another vehicle. I don't generally have unexpected trips that need to be made, and I have plenty of buffer in the ZF9 to handle errands or shorter unexpected trips.
Ex: a couple weeks back I was heading over to a friend's house for Game of Thrones and Dr. Who. Those days are 70 mile days for me, 20 miles to run in the morning, 12 miles to work, 18 miles to friend's house, 20 miles back to home. I catch a short charge in the morning after I get back from the run, but with just 110v 30-60 minutes is only a few % of the "tank".
With a ZF6 Zero or the Enertia Plus, I would have to charge at their house while we watch tv and movies. Generally not a problem, we're there for about four hours. On this particular day I show up and find out they had come down with the plague (have two young kids), so no TV tonight. Email was sent but my phone has essentially no signal at work. I turn around and go back home, no problem. With the E+ or the ZF6 bikes I would have to stop somewhere and grab dinner while I charged up. Still no problem but an inconvenience I dodged.
If you run out of charge to a point where you require a half day charging (even on 110v) to get back to home base, then you've badly miscalculated something. The ZF9 and Empulse will do a 95% charge in 8 or 9 hours, so let's say it's a Leaf. 12 hours of charging on 110v will get you about 16 kWh back into the pack, or about a 2/3 charge. That's good for about 50 miles at moderate speeds, more if you take a slower route. How / why did you end 50 miles from home base when you ran out of charge?
