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.
On foot?
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.
Wait, if that's true, then how come they call electricity "juice"?
Put a gas powered generator in the trunk?
Yabba Dabba Doooo!
Actually I think it’s 400 volts.
It’ll still take an hour to put thirty miles of range in the car.
Enough to curl your hair in a few microseconds in any case.
Yes, 400 volts, exception being Porsche @800 volts.
True but EVs have disconnecters which disconnect the batteries from the external contacts.
And a few others I think.
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.
bite yourself!
Are you sure? Do you have an EV?
It beats getting out and pushing.
Go to YouTube and search for videos on charging Teslas with generators.
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