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To: Tell It Right

Were you having to flee in a natural disaster evac would you choose the EV or the pickup truck?


15 posted on 07/11/2022 9:30:37 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Crush, smash and obliterate the Liberal New World Order)
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To: Rebelbase
If the gas stations had power I'd choose the gas pickup. If they didn't have power I could get 250 miles inland with my EV charged from the 20kW solar panels on my house with 90kW battery storage (more than my EV has).

I don't live close enough to the Alabama coast to worry about hurricanes (I can think of only once in my lifetime a hurricane made it this far north, and by then it might have been a tropical storm). But we've had tornadoes around here take out power for a week and our gas stations wouldn't work.

If you're married and have two cars anyway, the choice between gas or EV doesn't have to be a mutually exclusive choice. Instead of "either ... or" you can do "both...and".

21 posted on 07/11/2022 9:40:12 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Rebelbase

I’d take the Dodge with the 100 gallon red diesel tank in the back and my little diesel generator. That was my gulf coast bug out rig and now I don’t live there. :) Still got the truck and all though.

It is not just the charging with the EV. The only thing renewable about renewables is the replacement of the whole kit, batteries, wind turbines, solar panels, all of it has a relatively short life cycle and is hard to dispose of or recycle.

There is also the risk of battery failure. The risk may be small but the consequence is large, not manageable and mostly not reversible, the battery fires practically can’t be extinguished except by immersion. I don’t want that in my garage.

After even these things there is a laundry list of other problems others have mentioned already.

In a pros and cons list comparison ICE still wins hands down for most people. The EV remains a glorified golf cart.


54 posted on 07/11/2022 10:09:44 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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