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How Can I Flee Wildfires in My EV When There's No Electricity?
Institute for Policy Innovation ^ | Oct 27, 2020 | Dr. Merrill Matthews

Posted on 10/28/2020 10:10:31 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

You can’t make this stuff up!

Last month California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order “requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035 and additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector.”

Just one month later California’s Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced it would be cutting electric power to about 1 million of the state’s residents in an effort to reduce the risk of downed powerlines starting even more wildfires.

“It’s the fifth time this year that Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation’s largest utility, has cut power to customers in a bid to reduce the risk that downed or fouled power lines or other equipment could ignite a blaze during bone-dry weather conditions and gusty winds. On Sunday [Oct. 25], the utility shut off power to 225,000 customers in Northern California and later did the same for another 136,000 customers in a total of 36 counties,” according to ABC News.

Notice this was the fifth time that PG&E has left Californians in the dark.

The stories that emerge from these fast-spreading wildfires can be harrowing, not to mention tragic. First responders come banging on the door telling the residents they must get out quickly—with little or no time to pack up valuables or treasured keepsakes.

But at least most of the residents can jump in their gas-powered car or truck, start it up and go immediately. Even if the gas tank is low, putting in a couple of gallons is easy and takes almost no time.

But what if the utility has cut off your electricity and, in the year 2035, all you have is an electric-powered vehicle, as per Governor Newsom’s recent executive order.

How do you escape the coming inferno?

Even if you have a gas-powered generator that can supply electricity—which apparently a lot of Californians do since blackouts aren’t rare—it could still take a while for the EV to charge up.

It’s one thing to want to see the country transition away from gas-powered cars and trucks to EVs.

But it’s quite another thing to force that on the public when the powers-that-be can’t provide the power they need so at least the fleeing residents can drive their EV to safety.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: automotive; blackouts; california; electricity; gavinnewsom; newsom; wildfires
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

bkmk


21 posted on 10/28/2020 10:44:07 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

These people just don’t think.
Electric vehicles don’t make sense unless the power delivery infrastructure can handle the load, which it can’t.
Until it can, owning an EV is just a “look at me” item.


22 posted on 10/28/2020 10:46:34 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Well, if you think it’s a good idea to keep a spare Tesla battery in the garage that’s cool. Should only take several hours and a complete auto shop with specialized tools to change it.

They aren’t 12 volts, those cars. More like 200VDC. DC is far more dangerous than the same voltage of AC. Messing with them will kill you quite quickly.

I guess someone could have a 5KW gas or diesel generator. But even then it will take hours to charge the car.


23 posted on 10/28/2020 10:50:30 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I think that may actually be the plan.


24 posted on 10/28/2020 10:51:15 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Kriggerel

Yeah, but their bodies probably give off CO2 as they burn. Better to be sunk in the ocean to serve as food for whales and sharks. Course then the whales fart, so.....


25 posted on 10/28/2020 10:52:37 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: MtnClimber

Like I would feel sorry for anyone buying an EV. Net wise they pollute more than gas powered cars.

Good time for some con artist to come up with a hand crank genny to sell to them. Simply crank it hard for 2 to 3 days to get a partial charge.


26 posted on 10/28/2020 10:54:41 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: MtnClimber

I know I have! Can the government be far behind?


27 posted on 10/28/2020 10:55:36 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: hattend

We have had them.

Basically a lack of publicity.


28 posted on 10/28/2020 10:55:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I would rather be killed by Covid than by Loneliness, at the end of my life! I'll be 82 in November!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The same way you can if there is no gasoline in your tank.


29 posted on 10/28/2020 10:57:28 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: rigelkentaurus
Your EV will be lucky on a normal day to have enough power to get to the store and back.

I am not a big fan of having an EV for a primary car, but EV's sold today have plenty of range to get to and from the store. I definitely wouldn't own one as a primary car if I lived in places prone to hurricanes, fires and earthquakes..

30 posted on 10/28/2020 10:58:30 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Our Amish neighbors back home have an alternate fuel source: apples and hay. Try it.


31 posted on 10/28/2020 11:02:53 AM PDT by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Disambiguator

Carpool or bus.


32 posted on 10/28/2020 11:08:16 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Perhaps put a solar panel on the roof, and then you’ll be all set...
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...to drive roughly 4 miles, if you get good charging for a full day.


33 posted on 10/28/2020 11:10:44 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

Batteries die off...A gas can doesn’t....


34 posted on 10/28/2020 11:13:35 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

0:01 / 0:24
Level 2 EV charging from Honda EU7000i generator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFfoZkyROzw

(Make sure you always have a filled 5 gallon gas can at home!)


35 posted on 10/28/2020 11:23:53 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: JBW1949

Actually, a gas can DOES die off.

In one year, give or take, gas becomes useless for combustion engines.


36 posted on 10/28/2020 11:25:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The NYT commits acts of violence with their words.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I hope you like this glimpse into your future if you don’t vote out all of the democrats in your districts now.


37 posted on 10/28/2020 11:35:30 AM PDT by Intar
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

**How Can I Flee Wildfires in My EV When There’s No Electricity?**

Simple! As Euell Gibbons jokingly said years ago, between his Grape Nuts adds...”Just plug it into some Wild Currants and go on!”

https://www.hunker.com/13428368/how-to-identify-wild-currant-shrubs


38 posted on 10/28/2020 11:39:52 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (In FACEBOOK JAIL! again. The words "Brain Dead and Road Ho" got me canned.)
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To: Lazamataz

I did not know that...Thanks...


39 posted on 10/28/2020 11:41:52 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Fairy dust of course, Duh!


40 posted on 10/28/2020 11:42:54 AM PDT by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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