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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
When the wind starts whipping those EV’s around then many of them will catch fire and burn hot as hell. Anything near them will burn as well.
And when the power doesn’t come back on and the EV runs out of juice?
Nobody’s going to be bugging out using A1A. There are too many breaks where you have to go back onto the mainland to US 1 or Dixie Highway before you can take another bridge back to the next barrier island and A1A.
If 95 and the turnpike got stopped completely people might take US 1. Other alternative north leading highways are US 27 and 441.
Or one might cross to the West Coast on I75 or Alligator Alley if it’s heading towards Miami/Dade/Broward.
And when the government determines you’ve driven enough this week, they’ll just program the car to not accept the charge.
The grid can’t take a fast rise in load demand.
Also, not building enough new generation is a problem.
I work in electrical distribution and transmission, and our workforce is too small and too old to get everything done.
The government’s goals are horseshit.
But the air will be clean because EVs run on Unicorn Farts.
Right into the ocean…
There is that…
Yup
“Yeah, but the ‘mover outers’ may bring(and often do) their calipornia thought process with them”.
I’ve never bought that argument. There aren’t enough of them. If liberals can move to all the other states and “turn them blue” then liberals are the majority of the USA and should rightfully run everything and will rightfully win all elections.
So then according to you we all have to buy the latest technology coal burning battery cars?
I’m not remotely interested.
I got caught in the Virginia mess last week. Even though I only had half a tank of gas at the time, I wasn’t remotely concerned about it. I had stuff to stay warm and basically enjoyed a complete audiobook along with a good nights sleep behind a shopping mall.
Is that the guy who torched his Tesla because the price to R&R the battery was so high?
Stupid article and premise.
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What does that make you then since evidenced by your next sentence you obviously didn’t read the article?
Nowhere in the article does it say anything about the initial charging of cars being the problem. Even on a full charge many wouldn’t even get out of Florida.
“People in hurricane alley know the drill.”
Not according to my friend who has been in those evacuations. Many are woefully unprepared even when warned.
Electric cars don't use power if they are caught up in a traffic jam. Yes if they keep the A/C going, but otherwise no. Of course you can argue that gasoline motorists who shut off their engines won't run out of gas either. Unless they keep running the car to run the the A/C.
This will not affect the vaccinated.
Right, because gas cars and gas stations don’t run out of gas during a mass evacuation.
“And when the government determines you’ve driven enough this week, they’ll just program the car to not accept the charge.”
A remote shutdown switch for all new cars is in the current Build Back Better bill.
I'm sure if that was already in place, they would not allow people who didn't get the jab to drive.
Ive already seen the gasoline version of this movie:. Mad Max 2 the Road Warrior.
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