Reading about the lithium batteries catching fire in Florida during the recent hurricane and made me wonder how people would evacuate if a hurricane was coming and everyone had electric cars. Can you imagine how many charging stations would be required along the evacuation routes?
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I definitely agree that we shouldn’t be subsidizing Elon and his stupid sink. Between Tesla and SpaceX all that guy does is suck off the US taxpayers teets.
Government taxes fuel for ICE vehicles heavily and subsidizes EV heavily yet ICE remains the best economic choice.
We need to vote for politicians that will stop wasting our tax dollars on artificially promoting EVs.
I live in Houston and have neighbors that sold north cars and bought two Model 3s. I think they’re insane for this exact reason. We’re overdue for a direct hit from a hurricane, and I feel bad for them and their kids when it happens.
Unlike electric cars, I just put 40 gallons of extra diesel in cans in the bed of my truck and have a range of 1500 miles without depending on any grid or fuel station.
They should offer electric cars s with 3x or 4x the batteries because the range is just not good enough.
@1bba Yeah, there was just an intolerable amount of horsesh!t everywhere that drove people to ICE.
Things are so much different nowadays. Errr …
@1klq+1jrH64sA
When people were switching from horses to ICE cars, the government wasn’t giving them subsidies to do so, wasn’t pressuring the horse breeders with “zero emissions” rules and wasn’t passing laws outlawing horses past a certain year.
Let electric cars compete fairly; if the technology is already great and it will become even better than there’s nothing to argue about, people will vote with their pocketbook.
The Tesla fires in Florida were vehicles that had been submerged in saltwater, which corroded the batterie terminals. This is not a common problem in the Houston area, where saltwater flooding is very limited.
An EV like a Tesla is actually better to evacuate in, because when the car isn't moving, the power draw is very low. A Tesla can run the AC while sitting for 72 hours, assuming you start from a full charge. Each hour of AC use reduces range by 3 miles. An ICE car has to keep the engine running to have any AC, and will run out of gas more quickly than an EV.
Have you ever been through a hurricane @1klq+1jrH64sA? Pretty hard to charge your car in the weeks after a hurricane when there is no electricity. Have you ever tried to evacuate Houston when they implement contraflow? You think there will be enough chargers to charge the cars of all the evacuees trying to leave before a storm? The gas stations can barely keep up and it is a lot faster to fuel up woth gas than to charge a battery.
If you have an electric car you charge it nightly with home electricity, so it wouldn’t be a problem.
Also this argument makes no sense. People traded in horses for ICE cars and you could’ve made the same argument. But then we built gas stations everywhere because they were needed for ICE cars. Electric is the same way, but much much faster to set up somewhere.
Brand new technology isn’t perfect, more tonight at 9!
The technology is developing, and has a ways to go, that’s fine. Unfortunately, your lack of foresight tells me that you’re probably an executive here.
I just go Flintstone style like my 3-yr-old.
Good shoes are a musk.
My brother in law remembers Hurricane Andrew and people running out of gas, and dying on the road trying to flee. How many more would have died from electric car failure?
How long would it take an electric car to die on the highway. As he told me once, "I-95 is a six lane parking lot once everyone tries to evacuate."
I saw a news report about tow trucks refusing to tow electric cars after the hurricane because the flood damaged cars are spontaneously catching on fire weeks after the storm.
People evacuated in their ICE cars and left their electric cars to get flood damaged but now cannot get them transported for repair or disposal.
Electric cars are far less perfect than advertised.
Right on. That's what I do. I do my daily driving on my Tesla and have a spare truck just in case. Interesting enough, I have to keep recharching the battery of the truck as I never use it.
Really. The other will say. Motor with water will not work. The way is to combine them.
I will escape on pedal power (AKA Bicycle); albeit, not sure how far my fat A can get me.
Most people I know who have electric vehicles keep a ICE vehicle just in case.