Posted on 10/05/2022 7:23:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was ready with his answer when Fox News’s Neil Cavuto asked him about the widespread, hurricane-related power outages in southwest Florida.
“Do you think this reminds folks that we’re not ready, or the EVs are not ready for prime time?” Cavuto asked Buttigieg.
“Well, I actually think this is a great example of one of the many benefits of those tools,” Buttigieg said: “I was just at the Detroit Auto Show a couple of weeks ago. And one of the things that was very impressive about some of the vehicles that we saw, including the — for example, the pickup trucks that are on the market, entering onto the market right now, is that their power can actually flow both ways. So, in an extreme event, from a neighborhood resiliency perspective, they can actually work basically like a generator, except that you don’t have to have diesel ready for them. What they’re doing is, they’re using the battery capacity to power a home and, in that sense, could be very useful in a scenario like this.”
(Left unasked and unanswered was the question, how do you recharge your EV once the car battery runs down powering the house? Gas cans are portable; electric charging stations are not.)
Buttigieg said no one envisions an “overnight” transition to electric vehicles. …
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During the Texas Grid Failure people were using F-150 Hybrids to heat/power their homes.
Can we use their batteries to keep our fridge running?
Buttigieg, like everyone else in this administration is a simple minded fool.
Ya....for sitting on the side of the road!
Bicycles.
Horses.
ESPECIALLY if the grid is down and it is not possible to recharge.
Brilliant, buttjuice. You can also save trees by using some of your body parts as toilet paper.
Morons are in charge.
I’d be “for” (or rather, not against) electric vehicles if they weren’t being forced on us.
It’s like they are forced to keep pushing all of these Green new Deal ideas no matter how stupid, how useless, how unrealistic any of them are. I guess they don’t care how foolish they appear.
EMP would render every vehicle, even conventional useless.
“What the hell? This man graduated 5th grade?”
Even with today’s education standards, I think a 5th grader would be smarter than this clown.
It will but gas powered vehicles are easier to fix in this type of attack. The EV electric motor components will fuse.
Would not want to depend on an EV to evacuate. Who in their right mind would drive an EV with 20,000 miles on it through six inches of water? A few cracks in the battery casing and the occupants will become crispy critters.
See comment #34.
While rolling doobies.
Buttplugs likes that the vehicles go both ways.
He is delusional, probably still suffering from postpartum depression
Hey Buttplug, you eff’n engineering genius, ever hear of single point of failure?
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