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storm when the grid is down for months?
places in the US not have electricity for MONTHS! How do you get gasoline without electricity? They bring it in 5 gal jerry cans? Again, I've neve r been in that situation in my life and never heard of anyone in the US bei ng in that situation. So clearly it's not high on my list of worries.
ies, once the roads are clear and safe That doesn't happen until the hurric ane is over.
station to operate. Older stations stop receiving fuel deliveries before t he electricity is out, so their tanks are empty until power is restored. Th e stations shut down the generators when they run out of fuel, so no lights means no fuel.
new EV and the state closed the DMVs because of the impending Hurricane? I drove out and charged once before I left, then again when I reached Virgi nia.
ter the hurricane to leave? I guess that explains a lot of your problem.
hrough many of them, where the only electricity available was emergency she lters and hospitals. No one is going to let you charge an EV at one of thes e locations, since they are unsure of replacement fuel deliveries. I have g one close to three months without electricity as thousands of poles are rep laced, and downed lines are spliced. During and after Irma, the ONLY source to buy food for a month was a McDonald's that had a reefer full of food br ought in ahead of time, and a large mobile generator.
s had juice. It's still early days for EVs, that's true. In another three or four years there will be many, many more charging locations. If emerge ncy shelters are the only places with electricity you have much bigger prob lems than worrying about a car.
n this area. When there is no power to entire cites, how will you get power to your precious superchargers?
ut... like any other time when you are driving.
t anywhere near a normal traffic load. The traffic is bumper to bumper, tol l roads are turned off, and even the southbound lanes of I-75 are used for Northbound traffic. You are clueless as to the conditions involved. Add to the other problems, but South Florida is full of liberal idiots who don't m ake any preparations for emergencies. They are like the people who died dur ing Katrina, trapped in their attics because the refused to leave until it was too late.
No, I didn't but that doesn't matter to you.
You should talk. You try to twist everything to fit into your fantasy wo rld. I haven't owned a car in over 25 years, only trucks. Drive what you wa nt, but it doesn't work for me. I am in my late '60s, retired and now 100% disabled. Those EVs are too small for me to ride in, let alone drive one be cause of my damaged legs. Keep showing your stupidity about the real world, I don't care.
is you don't need to use a filling station to charge, you can charge at ho me. Most drivers keep their EVs topped off by plugging in every night. So even from Miami, you can travel well north of Orlando on one charge. If y ou were around Orlando (which I believe you are) you can be out of the stat e before needing a charge.
One truck I owned had room for one 15 gallon tank, and four 30 gallon tanks . I got over 30 MPG on the highway, so it could go 4000 miles without refue ling, if they were all installed.. Lets see you match that with your EV. It would carry 4400 pounds of cargo, with commercial tags.
icity, just be prepared and leave. It's not like they don't see hurricanes coming.
e of Florida from Miami and it's only 200 miles. I'm just not seeing the p roblem. I think you are exaggerating the conditions and the problems. I k now people who live in southern Florida and they've never mentioned such di re circumstances lasting for "months". Sure you aren't in Puerto Rico?
blem either because you don't want to, or because you aren't smart enough t o understand. People leaving South Florida had already bought all the gas t hat was available there, and they were hitting every station as they headed North, Vehicles were lined up for miles South of Ocala to get into gas sta tions.
car. Top off your EV at home before you leave and you can make to the pan handle or Georgia without refueling. Where's the problem?
The problem is that I have zero use for any current model EV but you jus t keep trying to hump my legs about them.
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rsation with you.
Don't blame your faults on me. You are suffering from 'Sloman Syndrome'. You think you know more about everything than anyone else. My current vehi cle is a 2016 Grand Caravan, because it was the only vehicle that I can get in and out of, without screaming in pain. Pull your head out of your ass, and grow up. I pray that you live long enough to beg for death from pain ca used by failing health.
ip to there, while worrying about running out of gasoline. Fuel tankers wou ld hit town around three AM, with enough out of town vehicles lined up to t ake it all. Some of you have insulted me in the past for keeping Spam on ha nd, along with other canned goods but it beats starving to death.
sugar foods which makes it difficult on us diabetics.
S that is operated like a third world country is not so good. Perhaps you should move closer to a major city where they get electricity back a lot so oner than MONTHS!
They have to get the system back on line from the top, down. I live in a s mall subdivsion, that is a mile from the nearest main primaries that run al ong State highway 441. The linemen work to restore power to hospitals, and emergency services first. Then they move on to large businesses. Schools an d smaller businesses follow that, and finally the residential areas. It too k so long because they were using the new poles as fast as they could be tr ucked in. The initial stockpile was gone in the first couple weeks. On top of this, most of the workers were from out of state, and unfamiliar with th e areas being restored. Go out and work for a utility and learn something a bout the work involved. Local utilities are working on a regular basis to u pgrade and harden their local plant. I can't drive very far from home witho ut running into line trucks from Duke, or the nearest city. I've seen proba bly 1000 new, larger poles being set since January. They will withstand hig her winds, and the heavier wire will not only withstand the higher winds, b ut it will reduce their I/R losses.In the 20 years that I've lived here, it was Florida Power. Then Progress, followed bu Duke.
have power restored? I think it will be the opposite, EV charging will be fairly high on the list. If your service stations all have generators I e xpect EV charging will be higher on the list that those.
raffic lights. Stations on the major roads will go back on line before thos e on less traveled roads. The people in charge are smarter than you.
he higher level infrastructure.
Sigh. Is there any oxygen where you live?
les and morons. I've only suffered long outages twice, in 32 yeas.
d work. Or you can suffer. So now you are saying long outages are not suc h a big deal. Ok, good to know. Keep the EV charged up and you will be ab le to make it out of the state very easily. Enjoy your EV.
her leave town or go to a shelter, the shelter was my only choice. You act like Florida has no technology. There is a Lockheed=Martin factory here, along with companies that manufacture medical equipment. Just because I don 't live in the city, doesn't mean that there isn't one within 10 miles. I'l l trade that for ever living and working in a large city, ever again.
on't have electricity to the infrastructure and larger facilities for MONTH S is absurd. If we have a CME, then yeah, electricity will be a problem be cause it can't be distributed.
I consider large cities third world shitholes. They are the perfect plac e for people like you. I'm thankful that you don't want to live anywhere ne ar me. I used to have to rive the busiest part of the Interstate highways t o get to work. You can have them. Orlando is bad enough, and I may never go back, if they don't ever finish rebuilding Interstate-4 through there. The re are daily notices about new routes, new exits and backed up traffic as t hey widen bridges. I am old, tired and sick. Live with it, or go away.