It will have a little internal combustion engine that
can recharge.
There is a small gasoline engine that provides power and can recharge the batteries. If an area truly has all the power knocked out, the gas station pumps won’t work either.
The Volt uses a small gasoline engine to generate electricity for the battery system that powers the electrical drive, but it does not aid in propulsion. Assuming the design comes out as penciled, it will travel hundreds of miles on a smallish tank of gasoline.
Gas station pumps don’t work without electricity. Six of one; half a dozen of the other.
The Volt will go about 40 miles on electricity alone, before the gasoline generator kicks in for a total range of about 640 miles on one tank.
Tesla Roadster all electric has a range of over 200 miles. Yes a golf cart could be problematic in escaping from a hurricane, but the electric cars being developed are far from golf carts.
Electric Cars are a joke for America.
I can just see several hundred of them spread all over Interstate 695 Baltimore to Washington at morning rush hour when a 50 mile drive takes 2 and 1/2 hours.
Or your electric car chugging along for all its worth on a major highway as a half dozen tractor trailers come barrreling down on your from behind at 85 mile per hour.
NO THANKS...........
Even a portable generator would recharge an EV.
Not terribly convincing. If there’s no power, the gas pumps don’t work either.
If the libs have their way we will all be driving Fred Flintsone cars.
The electrics are coming, but they won’t be primary transportation until you can go 300 miles on a charge. If you can’t get from LA to Vegas without stopping, or Houston to Dallas, then forget it.
Speed? Suspect if it can go 70 MPH that the 40 mile range will probably drop to about 10 if lucky. P=VA Would require more amps to sustain the voltage and it is the Amps that would be the problem. Have to question the little gas generator for the same reason. Suspect to get the 70 MPH the little gas engine would run constant to augment the battery supply. Could be wrong.
Liberals don’t THINK.
Liberals only react.
Not really a good argument.
Real issue is what in the world are we going to do with billions of pounds of toxic waste from all these batteries.
And what (fossil fuel) method are we going use to generate the electricity to charge all of these polluting batteries?
Electric cars are smoke and mirrors.
Um, the gas stations weren’t open either in the impacted areas. They also require electricity to operate.
Maybe you want to think through this issue again before proclaiming your personal destruction of a liberal myth.
Until the technology is more advanced, most households will have a regular car in addition to an electric/hybrid car.
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