Electric vehicles during a disaster

[cqaigy2]

More timely… a coworker and I were traveling for a training event… he got a call about a family emergency… his Tesla was at 15% as he had planned to charge that evening. He couldn’t leave to go home, he had to park and charge, and wait to drive 200 miles.

A family "emergency" that doesn't seem like it was a big deal if he could lollygag around, waiting for his car to charge.

 

[cqaigy2]

Well...mark my words: with the proliferation of more EVs this idea of EV's getting charged in the wee hours of the morning, not during peak hours, the wee hours of the morning will BECOME peak hours.
Everyone's electric bill will increase, even those not owning an EV.
Everyone's.

My electric bill has been going up, before any EVs were around. Must be because of all those ICE machines.

 

[cqaigy2]

Exactly what I do unless I pass a slower vehicle (rarely), then I'll increases my speed to 75 or so until I get passed, then drop back to 65.

Amazing part is I'm usually motoring along with no one tailgating me unlike those driving hell bent for heaven in the fast lane because there is always someone who wants to go faster so invariably going 80 bumper to bumper which is an bad accident waiting to happen.... and does regularly.

Zactly how i drive. Stay in the right lane, speed up to pass, get back over into the right lane.

 

[MossRoad]

Zactly how i drive. Stay in the right lane, speed up to pass, get back over into the right lane.

Get outa my way!

 

[MossRoad]

These signs are there to tell you that I am on the road nearby….

 

[MossRoad]

When our kids were small I used to tell them that was the Watch For Crazy Drivers sign.

They believed it well into their teens.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Has anyone’s ever gone down before EVs?

No...but this will be a quantum leap. Mark my words.
Oh...unless one believes it's part of the $billions "infrastructure", so pay via taxes.
No free lunch.

 

[ruffdog]

Zactly how i drive. Stay in the right lane, speed up to pass, get back over into the right lane.

These signs are there to tell you that I am on the road nearby….

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So that is what that sign means.............

 

[MossRoad]

No...but this will be a quantum leap. Mark my words.
Oh...unless one believes it's part of the $billions "infrastructure", so pay via taxes.
No free lunch.

Yep, your electric bill will go up. Your gasoline bill will go down.

Most EV owners will tell you that the savings spent on getting them from point A to point B is much more costly with gas VS electric.

Yes, there will be electric infrastructure that will have to be built/upgraded. And yes, those costs will go on to consumers like you and me.

I don’t think you and I will have to worry that much about those costs in the near future, as ICE vehicle sales aren’t expected to peak until 2035. So we still have time to make changes and adjustments. And, there’ll still be hundreds of millions of ICE cars on the road for a few decades.

 

[RoyJackson]

I think much of this thread and posters understand that EV are an interim solution, at least in the US and rural areas.
I'd written in a previous post (weeks ago) that I think hydrogen, once practical storage is determined, is the fuel of the future for vehicles