“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 ...”
Wow, that is scary, and plausible. It may even begin before you say, with the grid going down as everyone tries to charge their cars at the same time.
Luckily there are NEVER traffic jams when people try to evacuate and even if that should happen, well then...Musk has an app for it.
“It may even begin before you say, with the grid going down as everyone tries to charge their cars at the same time.”
indeed ... grid 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 as you point out, there’s the scenario when the grid itself is wiped out early in the disaster ...