EV arguments from the performance garage.
Range Anxiety tracks the messy edge between old-school performance cars and electric motoring. Its episodes move from drag-strip results and roll-racing logs to battery fires, fuel-price cycles, DIY EV conversions, and the jokes that happen when car people argue in public.
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Range Anxiety is a car show with one foot in the performance workshop and the other planted firmly in the EV transition. It is not polite futurism. The show treats electric cars, petrol cars, and home-built experiments as things to race, tune, diagnose, mock, defend, and occasionally fear for the wrong reasons. Episodes can start as banter and end in a technical lesson. A drag-strip story becomes a comparison between EV launch behavior and a Commodore disappearing behind it. A roll-racing review turns into talk about shift points, spark timing, torque management, ethanol content, boost spikes, and what the data is actually saying. The car talk has texture. It knows floor mats, bonnet struts, lightweight racing cells, dirty Leafs, and the strange confidence of internet-sourced tunes. Range Anxiety also spends time on the economics and politics around cars. Fuel-price cycles, cost-of-living pressure, petrol loyalty, road rules, and public panic about battery fires all become material. The show is openly pro-EV, but it is not tidy or corporate about it. Its case is made through annoyance, comparison, workshop experience, and a belief that most everyday driving will eventually leave petrol behind. The comedy is blunt and often chaotic. Conversations with Paul or other named voices bring teasing, rivalry, and a loose sense that the microphone was switched on before everyone was fully ready. That looseness is part of the appeal. It suits listeners who like technical detail delivered with heat, digressions, and a willingness to call out nonsense. The show can be abrasive. It is also specific, lived-in, and unusually candid about the awkward middle ground between tuning culture and electric mobility.
Made for: For car people who care about tuning data, drag-strip results, EV conversions, battery realities, and the future of petrol performance. It especially suits listeners who prefer opinionated workshop talk over polished tech commentary.
What sets it apart: Range Anxiety stands apart by mixing tuning and racing detail with aggressive EV-era commentary. It is less showroom review than garage debrief: messy, technical, funny, and frequently confrontational.
A look into the High Tech world of Automotive Tuning by Martin Donnon. Funny at times, controversial at others, Martin will bring you the highlights of an illustrious career spanning 30 years in Automotive Development and Tuning. A must for any car-buffs young and old!
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Martin Donnon makes modified-car technology legible by connecting logged data, mechanical constraints and road behavior.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
An EV-versus-ICE drag-strip grudge match with stopwatch numbers and trackside swagger.
Range Anxiety Day plays like a drag-strip showdown, with an EV and an ICE-powered car trading lines over stage lights, superchargers, limiter hits, and a backfire that lands with the timing of a punch line.
A roll-racing debrief that turns limiter hits into a tuning plan.
Range Anxiety turns a blown VFSS into a track-side dissection, with Marty, Weld, Bob, and Paul unpacking what happened and what should change next.
DIY EV conversions are treated as hard, costly projects, with the real test being whether they work at all.
Range Anxiety keeps its focus on DIY EV conversions, and it does so with an unsentimental eye for cost, difficulty, and the hard truth that a conversion that has to succeed can get very expensive.
A garage-side tuning session where the data, not the bravado, does the heavy lifting.
Range Anxiety turns a roll-racing problem into a tidy workshop diagnosis: limiter hits, boost spikes, torque management, fuel choice, and the logging that keeps a tune answerable.
A cold Adelaide start turns into a grounded tour of turbo packaging, old workshop rules, and practical tradeoffs.
Range Anxiety opens on a cold Adelaide morning in a Tesla Model 3, while the host keeps working through the show’s sound trouble and tracks the static back to sunlight hitting a nearby big battery and inverter room.
Cars, explained from the garage outward.
Driverless mobility, argued from the road up.
Engineering breakthroughs, translated without the lecture.
Shop-floor talk for serious engine people.
Future shock, made practical.
Shop talk from the people on AERA's tech line.
Range Anxiety opens with a static problem in Adelaide: a Tesla Model 3 parked near a battery room is picking up EMI from 200 kilowatts of solar panels and 25 to 30 kilowatts of inverters.
Range Anxiety's Roll Racing Review turns a 13-run roll-racing night into a fight over shift points, limiter hits, and rod load.
Host Martin Donnon and a guest discuss automotive tuning and reminisce about Christmas traditions.
Martin Donnon discusses automotive tuning, tech updates, and personal anecdotes in a casual, humorous style.
Martin Donnon discusses automotive tuning, car tech updates, and personal anecdotes in a humorous solo episode.
Marty and Paul use Range Anxiety Day at The Bend to compare an EV launch with a modified street car’s drag-strip setup.
Two car tuners discuss the details of tuning a VFSS, including paint issues, brake booster, and racing experiences.
Martin Donnon uses Range Anxiety #262, “DIY EV,” to separate easy classic-EV candidates like the Volkswagen Beetle, Porsche 911, and SW20 MR2 from difficult modern builds.