An extended car-following model with consideration of the electric vehicle’s driving range

•This paper proposed an electric vehicle’s following model.•The effects of the driving range on each vehicle’s speed are studied.•The effects of the driving range on each vehicle’s headway are studied.

In this paper, we propose a car-following model to explore the influences of the electric vehicle’s driving range on the driving behavior under four traffic situations. The numerical results illustrate that the electric vehicle’s behavior of exchanging battery at the charge station can destroy the stability of traffic flow and produce some prominent jams, and that the influences are related to the electric vehicle’s driving range, i.e., the shorter the driving range is, the greater the effects are.