Given recent power outages and trends --- will transition to electric vehicles pose problems when multi-day power outages occur?

I wonder if anybody with electric vehicles were inconvenienced by the recent outages. Don't mean people that had gas powered vehicles to fall back on. I mean people that solely rely on electric vehicle and had no power at two key points - home and work.

Generator must have in these cases? Generators are sufficient?

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Originally posted by konata88:
Given recent power outages and trends --- will transition to electric vehicles pose problems when multi-day power outages occur?

I wonder if anybody with electric vehicles were inconvenienced by the recent outages. Don't mean people that had gas powered vehicles to fall back on. I mean people that solely rely on electric vehicle and had no power at two key points - home and work.

Generator must have in these cases? Generators are sufficient?

YES. After Hurricane Irma, most people didn't have power for 2 weeks, my friends sister was driving to his house in her Tesla and ran out of juice on I95 and it had to be towed. I believe Tesla's have a slow charging mode or adapter that you can use a standard household 15 amp electric plug to recharge it, but it takes a very long time 12-24 hours to recharge. But better than nothing.

I think diesel electric is the way to go for cars......a small generator to recharge the battery banks if needed. BUT, the EPA has put such restrictions on diesel that we'll never see that and the best case scenario is a hybrid like the Prius.

So someone convince me that Honda is going to discontinue their hottest touring platform, the Gold Wing, and create some sub-par electric touring platform?? I don't think so...

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
So someone convince me that Honda is going to discontinue their hottest touring platform, the Gold Wing, and create some sub-par electric touring platform?? I don't think so...

What you really need is for someone to tell you that the world will make as much sense as it does right now- which ain't all that much. Which direction do you think the world will go? Will it make as much sense, or will it make less sense?

Read the book "The Energy Disruption Triangle" by David Fessler. It is all about solar power technology as the efficiency increases.

Walmart has already started adding charging stations to their stores that are near the interstate.

https://energyandresourcesdige...etfs-play-ev-influx/

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Originally posted by parabellum:
What you really need is for someone to tell you that the world will make as much sense as it does right now- which ain't all that much. Which direction do you think the world will go? Will it make as much sense, or will it make less sense?

Well, there's certainly a discernible trend....

That's a helluva thread topic you got there.

As for the topic at hand, to folks throwing out renewables as the solution, there are massive and well documented challenges you are ignoring - physical, political, environmental,technological, economic, etc. The simple fact is fossil fuel and nuclear account for approximately 83% of energy generation in the US, with solar, for instance hanging around 1.6% currently, and I don't see renewables changing in a truly substantive way in the next 10 years. Solar may triple or even quadruple, but other renewables like hydro, currently the largest renewable contributor generating 7%, are on the wane.