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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

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To: CondoleezzaProtege

On foot?


41 posted on 10/28/2020 11:46:54 AM PDT by moovova
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Flee in your EV? Have a great friend with a F-350 and a flatbed trailer and see if you can put your EV on it. If you have the Mustang Mach E, you can put it on my trailer...😀 all other EVs, maybe.
42 posted on 10/28/2020 11:49:30 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020t)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

California democrats ordered “road diets” reducing the number of lanes to force you into buses or walking or bicycling and now they are cutting off the electricity.

You will all burn to death on the road out just like what happened in Paradise, California which took state money with strings attached and reduced a 4 lane road to 2 lanes.
The democrat party murders people.


43 posted on 10/28/2020 12:01:37 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Seruzawa
Not so easy to keep buckets of electricity handy.

Wait, if that's true, then how come they call electricity "juice"?

44 posted on 10/28/2020 12:31:21 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (When seconds count, social workers are days away.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Put a gas powered generator in the trunk?


45 posted on 10/28/2020 12:44:19 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Yabba Dabba Doooo!


46 posted on 10/28/2020 12:56:27 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Life is tough, but at least it's short.)
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To: Seruzawa

Actually I think it’s 400 volts.


47 posted on 10/28/2020 1:14:48 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

It’ll still take an hour to put thirty miles of range in the car.


48 posted on 10/28/2020 1:17:44 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf
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Enough to curl your hair in a few microseconds in any case.


49 posted on 10/28/2020 1:17:59 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BiteYourSelf

Yes, 400 volts, exception being Porsche @800 volts.


50 posted on 10/28/2020 1:20:34 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: Seruzawa

True but EVs have disconnecters which disconnect the batteries from the external contacts.


51 posted on 10/28/2020 1:21:06 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf
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To: crosdaddy

And a few others I think.


52 posted on 10/28/2020 1:22:02 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf
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Also true. But you’d better know what the heck you are doing before you start messing with it. I was a shipboard electrician in the USN. You don’t want to mess around with those voltages. Even a slight error will kill you very quickly. Getting bit by 450V is no laughing matter.


53 posted on 10/28/2020 1:25:42 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BiteYourSelf

bite yourself!

Are you sure? Do you have an EV?

It beats getting out and pushing.


54 posted on 10/28/2020 6:59:37 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Go to YouTube and search for videos on charging Teslas with generators.


55 posted on 10/28/2020 9:34:04 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf
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