here’s a more realistic scenario, not just ONE EV but thousands:
well the scenario with chain-reaction dead EVs is that several thousand EVs take off to evade a disaster at the same time, but many don’t have a full charge and so those give out first, causing the whole gaggle to stall, with the next poorest charged ones giving up the ghost next, and so on until there’d be miles of dead EVs stalled essentially forever, as there’d be no way to perform a mass charge or a mass tow ... especially if all of the emergency vehicles themselves were EVs ... and even if bunches of them did manage to get some distance away, there’s be no way at whatever destination they did mange to reach to recharge that many all at once ...
and that scenario would still get worse: operators in CA are already talking about limiting EV charging to night-time when demand is otherwise lower ... can just see the scenario when grid operators put automatic switches on home charging stations that don’t turn the juice on until a certain time in the evening, and the disaster hits right before or about that time and almost NO EVs are fully charged, and perhaps most are even nearly empty ... and of course there’s the scenario when the grid itself is wiped out early in the disaster ...
The people cheering on EV's are backing all of us into a corner. Ya put 80 million EV's on the roads and you can bet the rent, electricity rates will skyrocket, there will be electricity rationing and regulations on when or where you can charge, drive, etc, etc.
—”here’s a more realistic scenario, not just ONE EV but thousands:”
An interesting thought experiment.
But with EV sales in the low single digits, you will have a very long wait for this to become a possibility.
And California and NY are doomed, regardless.