During the blackout, greenies can power their house with their EV car battery.
An average EV battery is 70kWh. That yields 600 amp hours of energy. Assuming the battery was fully charged and you can drain it to zero (not going to happen), then you can power your house for 5 hours.
Just don’t plan on driving to work the next day.
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Not this EV owner. Ain't gonna happen. One reason I have both an EV car and a gas pickup is so our mobility isn't dependent on just one energy source. The EV car will still be good in case a large power outage keeps gas pumps from working. With 20kW of solar, 92kWh of battery storage (not including the EV), and many simple energy improvements done to the house to make it not need as much power to keep us comfortable, then in the spring, summer, and fall I almost always have more power than we need and don't pull much from the grid anyway.
And if the grid goes down during a few days in a row of rain (read: little solar power), I can park the EV for a while and depend on the gas pickup (if at least one gas station has backup power) so I'm not using up home solar power to drive the EV.
None of that works well, though, if you do the EV and solar thing thinking it's saving the world or whatever. It works that well only if you're in a good situation for it (i.e. good climate, have good position for solar array, the kind of driving habits conducive to taking advantage of the benefits of an EV, etc.) and if you do the math and tweaking like someone trying to make himself somewhat self-reliant on energy. Global warming isn't the enemy you have to prepare against. The control-freak Dims, who base their energy policies on the warmageddon cult, are the enemy you have to prepare against.