Nope, won’t happen because President Cortez will simply mandate that all EVs carry self-charging power strips.
Posted on 01/09/2022 10:13:32 AM PST by rktman
Imagine: It is September 4, 2035, in Miami and a large Cat. 5 hurricane is offshore headed straight for the city.
Roughly 7 million persons are in the general area where the hurricane will come ashore in 24 hours. The governor orders an evacuation of the Miami–Fort Lauderdale area of Florida. All of the cars start heading north on I-95. All lanes are cleared to head northbound. With Congress and President Cortez having mandated that all cars built after 2030 must be electric (no hybrids), everyone heads north, but now all the people are caught up in a terrible traffic jam.
Electric cars are starting to stall out on I-95 as well as the A1A and the Turnpike as they run out of power. There are simply not enough charging stations to charge the cars, and police monitoring the available chargers are limiting drivers to 15 minutes. Chargers are shutting down as water shorts out the charging heads on the cars. The electric cars are turning off their air-conditioners to preserve their remaining charge.
You are stuck in a traffic jam all night with the storm headed right at you. No battery, no A/C, no windshield-wipers, no GPS. All that you can do is call 911 and hope for help, but they can't because all of the roads are blocked with stalled electric vehicles. The new electric police and EMT vehicles mandated by President Cortez soon are out of juice. The wind is increasing. Then Florida Power and Light turns off the grid as power lines come down.
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This is ridiculous. We will all be dead by 2035 from Covid.
Mining for battery materials for electric vehicles will be remembered as the worst environmental catastrophe in world history.
Old hotness: Raptor.
New Hotness: Hennessey.
The same problem will happen with California fires and a creaky power grid, and California has 42% of all EVs on the road in America.
Maybe CaliPornia will be saved from that if enough people move out.
Trade your EV for a sailboat.
I heard on a piece the other day that a guy went to replace the battery in his Tesla. The cost? $17,000
And just who is going to control those battery materials? I assure you it ain’t gonna be The Boy Scouts.
Yeah, but the ‘mover outers’ may bring(and often do) their calipornia thought process with them.
Stupid article and premise.
People who live in hurricane alley know when a hurricane is coming and will make sure the car is fully charged ahead of time.
People in hurricane alley know the drill.
The Chinese Communist Party.
China will also have a monopoly on electric vehicle production.
I read one from Sweden that a tesla replacement battery pack was $20k. The owner contracted with some company to blow it up in a rock quarry someplace. Video was included. The owner said it was better than the day he bought it to blow it up.
LOL! Been there done that. NOT everybody has planning skills.
“I heard on a piece the other day that a guy went to replace the battery in his Tesla. The cost? $17,000”
Older obsolete model. Battery innovation has chnaged leaps and bounds in the even the last 4-5 years.
Toyota is coming out with 2 new EV’s next year. Game changers according to Toypta USA. 450 mile range, the motor will be warrantied for a million miles (only one moving part) and Toyota claims the batteries will last 15 years.
They are new solid state batteries not what the current ev companies are using.
Nope, won’t happen because President Cortez will simply mandate that all EVs carry self-charging power strips.
“I heard on a piece the other day that a guy went to replace the battery in his Tesla. The cost? $17,000”
Older obsolete model. Battery innovation has chnaged leaps and bounds in the even the last 4-5 years.
Toyota is coming out with 2 new EV’s next year. Game changers according to Toypta USA. 450 mile range, the motor will be warrantied for a million miles (only one moving part) and Toyota claims the batteries will last 15 years.
They are new solid state batteries not what the current ev companies are using.
Another problem???
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) found that in 2018, a total of 212,500 vehicle fires caused 560 civilian deaths in the US.Dec 8, 2021
You can’t put out these fires with A, B, and C fire extinguishers You need “D” type extinguishers.
Cost of a “D” extinguisher is over $900
And you need TWO!
Agreed. Hurricanes offer enough advance warning, and structures built post 1992 (which by 2035 will be a majority of housing in FL) are hardened enough to allow shelter in place for everyone but immediate coastal residents. Electrics will create some problems - but nothing like this scenario.
“This is ridiculous. We will all be dead by 2035 from Covid.”
Oh, please, you missed The Airhead of Congress (AOC) when she proclaimed we’ll all be dead in 2030. Please get a calendar and keep current.
Mea culpa.
“ And just who is going to control those battery materials? I assure you it ain’t gonna be The Boy Scouts.”
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Not just that. What about old worn out batteries? What happens with this mess?
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