Imagine you’re in a gulf or coastal state and there is a warning to evacuate for a hurricane. You hope your electric car stays charged long enough to get you away from the coast/threat. Stuck in traffic in an electric vehicle? Sucks to be you, your car becomes an obstacle when it dies and is pushed off the road. EV’s don’t have the range or reliability to be realistically dependable.
At least they will have died doing their part to save the planet.
that scenario happened in my wilderness area of florida during the evacuation of hurricane irma 4 years ago...
i75 was a parking lot...
many drivers discovered the back roads in my area to avoid the traffic jam...
then the back roads became parking lots...
gas stations are at least 15-20 miles apart in some areas and further apart in others...
there are no charging stations anywhere once you leave the immediate areas of the major highway...
there were overglorified golf carts abandoned on the sides of the back roads...
and to top it off we didn’t have electricity for almost 2 weeks after the storm...
“Imagine you’re in a gulf or coastal state and there is a warning to evacuate for a hurricane. You hope your electric car stays charged long enough to get you away from the coast/threat. Stuck in traffic in an electric vehicle? Sucks to be you, your car becomes an obstacle when it dies and is pushed off the road. EV’s don’t have the range or reliability to be realistically dependable.”
400 miles is more than a lot of ICE cars.
Ever try to find a gas station during a hurricane evacuation?