Electric-Car Owners Shocked by California Blackouts(DOH!)

pjmedia.com ^ | 10/11/2019 | Jim Treacher

[Mr Ramsbotham]

It’s electricity. It comes from the wall.

[drypowder]

Rush reported yesterday that the batteries in a Tesla will cost $33,000 to replace and they won’t last the life of the car

[drypowder]

Rush reported yesterday that the batteries in a Tesla will cost $33,000 to replace and they won’t last the life of the car

[DEPcom]

Oh no, my Tesla car battery is dead because I had no power all week. There is a wild fire just around the corner, how do I get out...

That is not good at all. Hopefully that is not happening to anybody.

[forgotten man]

A few years ago all of the electricity in San Diego County went out in the mid afternoon. It stayed down for several hours. Nobody could buy gasoline because the pumps did not work. People with almost empty tanks who were planning on buying gas after work were S.O.L.

[butlerweave]

and in other News , Dyson cancels it’s Electric Car

[Lurkinanloomin]

Didn’t W. tell us that sawgrass was the future?

[LRoggy]

In Florida the gas stations have generators, same with the grocery stores

[Nuke From Orbit]

When doe this entire fiasco turn into a state of emergency? The CA government has not been able to maintain the state and now there is a utility running rough shot over the populace. When doe the Federal Government get called in? I am wondering when that BS starts.

[HollyB]

They have now plastered the pics of two guys who broke into cars - using them as the face of why there’s a curfew. It’s for your safety.

It’s about as bad as when they blamed the video on the Benghazi.

[Old_Grouch]

Hmmm, I own a Prius. Where should I go to surrender my driver's license? And how will I buy booze for the 2020 Trump re-election party without it?

You are the exception that proves the rule.

[kjam22]

I still think we need a three state solution. Calistan on the west coast and Yorkistan on the East Coast. America the beautiful in the middle.

[seastay]

This article says they have solar cells and permits waiting to counter the blackouts. Good luck,,.. With the 200–400 W panels that are readily available and assume panel of 300 watts rating, then they will need around 18 such panels collecting all day to charge one Tesla. .But since there are about 350,000 electric vehicles in CA , and even if only 20 percent are in the blackout zones , that's a whopping 70,000 vehicles needing charge AND over 1 million panels needed if they are all to be charged at once , or 100,000 solar panels needed to charge each car once every 10 days at the average driving rate ( 35 miles a day).. Total, half million panels if they want to keep charge every electric car in the state.. awful lot of permits !

[TexasGator]

Rush got it wrong.

[yarddog]

Well this was in Florida and there was no gas.

The local TV station came on after a few hours and one thing they began to do is tell people where the nearest gas was.

They reported that DeFuniak Springs had gas (and power) and people began driving there just to fill up.

[Calvin Locke]

During the Gray Davis years, CA had an incentive program for businesses that shut down during brown-out conditions.

One of the businesses to take advantage was a fuel distribution pipeline that supplied gasoline (in the greater SF region, iirc). The result being that no fuel tankers could be filled to supply gas stations the first time it happened.

[Seruzawa]

I can store 15 gals of gas in my garage. That would get me to the next State where we have a family property to escape to. I can’t store a can of electricity.

[mumblypeg]

Pookie’s Toons nails it today on the electric cars.
But I can’t post photos or memes, so y’all gotta go look.
Look carefully at the “pumps.”

[nuconvert]

Should have a hybrid

[BigEdLB]

You are probably the exception. I drive For Uber, I see a lot of careless bullies driving Priuses