Electric Vehicles May Present Major Problem
During Natural Disaster Evacuations: Experts

I stopped reading at "increasingly popular with buyers."

Not just power supply. Imagine 8 lanes of freeway clogged with stalled cars. Imagine the fires when these cars flood

Oh, our infinitely wise leaders didn’t think of some issues. How can they when they haven’t been told - “briefed” - to think of them. Oh well, maybe they’ll hear at the next fundraiser.

Read an article today, recommending the book “Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom” by Patrick Moore, founder of Greenpeace. I’ve ordered. Apparently, he lays out real scientific facts and exposes the climate change scam. Among other topics, he discusses how we are decimating lands to get to the rare earth minerals. No EV for Flyball Dogs.

Yeah you can use my generator to charge your tesla. That’ll be $14,000 per charge, thank you.

Down here in SE Louisiana, first thought is "DUH". Try a mass evacuation with zero power and you've got a freeway clogged with 80 - 120K bricks.

Electric Vehicles are going to present many major problems.

Also after Ida last year here in Louisiana, I thanked God for fossil fuel that was powering police, fire, hospitals, electric companies repair trucks, my home generators, chain saws etc.

I would think so. Even an EMP would disable anything with a motor, and if our power grid is down, so are the EV, which would make me want to gloat at the people with more money than commonsense. Big 7 or 10 point quakes would destroy everything so completely that pretty much any vehicle would be an expensive paperweight.

Just wait until Biden stumbles in and signs an executive order that all the US Military’s armored vehicles must be electric powered!

Duh! Ya think? ( whose the idiot that didn’t think of this?) I am so sick of our idiot media. I live in a hurricane zone & any one who does knew this after our last hurricane—Ida!

My number one reason for not even considering one is how much of a liability it is during an emergency.

It takes and expert to figure out it MAY present a problem$ I am not an expert but i KNOW it will cause a problem.

I'm thinking the USPS has signed a big contract for EV's to replace some of their vehicles. What about the country routes that go on for miles. Or the big mail trucks that would have to haul the mail over mountains or even long distances. I'm not a rocket scientist but I just don't understand their stupidity on this. And the climate change issue. Duh and double Duh!

This problem came into reality last winter during the huge traffic pileup in the snowstorm just south of the Washington Beltway on I-95. Drivers ran out of fuel while trying to keep their families warm and could be resupplied with gasoline carried to them in cans. EVs, were stuck and holding up traffic on three or four lanes on both sides until a towtruck could get to them. This EV farce will eventually fall apart when Americans refuse to buy these impractical contraptions but not until billions of dollars of our money has been wasted.

Liberals never think past Step One.

They are a problem all the time. They are jokes, not real cars.

Maybe the only smart thing General Honore ever said was, "Don't get stuck on stupid." Admonitions too late for the pointy headed Lefties engorged on green stuff. Several years ago, everything, i mean everything, stopped when an ice storm encased all the power lines in most of NH, some ME, large portions of MA. You could not pump gas (one reason in FL they passed a law requiring gas stations to have generators (because despite warnings, a great many people did not top off their tanks when weather services said the Big One was on the way). I saw people wandering around the station forlornly carrying their empty gas cans, looking dumbly and hopelessly for what they had expected would power their generators. I was looking for a cup of hot coffee, hot anything, as 8 hours into no heat or power I was beginning to feel coldness in my bones. Taking a ride in the car with the dog, enjoying the heat, I nevertheless knew I'd have to return to a home where indoors the temperatures were starting to plummet. I was worried about how soon the pipes would begin to freeze (something Texans dealt with last year, millions and millions of dollars of damage. In their case, the oil-rich State lost power due to frozen wind turbines, and more failures). Hubby had left for a meeting with a client in a federal prison in MA. As he drove down an access road, trees coated in ice, massive branches strewn across the way, he was stopped by Troopers, who warned that power was out at the prison, which was on auxiliary power, and not safe for visitors. If you have everyone charging their cars to prepare for escape, would that over-tax the power source (and what will that source be, anyway???), will the vehicles be clogging the highways, running out of power? Would you have to turn off any "accessories," such as heat (or air-conditioning)so as to not drain the power? Where will these climate vagabonds find a warm meal or cup of something warm? Just as I was beginning to plan an exodus to families' elsewhere, hubby called. Power was on in Newburyport, and he said he'd bring me some coffee, etc. A few minutes later, I heard static on my radio, and the familiar voice of Rush Limbaugh! We, in our neighborhood, were fortunate, our power came on after only 12 hours of below freezing temperatures. Parts of NH didn't get power restored for weeks. In this scenario, we had a reliable source of energy, so once the power lines were repaired, the problem was resolved. I don't think anyone trying to force on us this green energy system has really thought through the kind of damage such storms as hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms, blizzards can do to the entire system. But then, if you really don't care about the motley rabble, why, then the safety of the people is secondary to the utopian dream. This is just a short story from real life, not a fantasy from the silly, childish dreams of Lefty Greenies, who spend too much time with each other. This leads to mental atrophy. Unfortunately for us, the big power decision-makers are all from that milieu. Those are the elites who populate the New World Order totalitarian fascistic oligarchy, and they so crave to dominate the world... never ends well, does it?

I think Japan is building a highway that charges the EV while it's cruising.

Frankly, I've always worried about all the traffic in natural disaster evacuations, even without EVs! Earthquakes and wildfires will do that to you. I hoped I could at least take my Wrangler off-road if I had to.....'Close Encounters' style!!

When it comes to this EV boondoggle, Atlas is not only shrugging, he is laughing his head off.

Demonrat answer: You're on your own for being stupid enough to buy an electric vehicle.

No kidding Dick Tracy! Memo to Hurricane Center. Please pause hurricane while I charge my taxpayer subsidized EV.

Oh, ya really think??? Takes 10 minutes to fill a gas tank and better than an hour to charge an EV? Talk about mass exodus from hurricane paths...

To be Zero Emission vehicles, the charging stations MUST be certified to use only electricity produced by solar, wind or hydroelectric. Nuclear emits steam, hence an emission.

ya think?

Other than that, everything the Elon Musk has predicted has come true!

We installed a whole house back up generator in my rural subdivision here in S. Louisiana in 2015 and it's been worth every penny. At 1st, some neighbors laughingly questioned the purchase, but now, the majority of homes in the subdivision have aux. power! And I think I've only seen a couple of Teslas and quite a few of those Toyota hybrids. The only upside to an electric vehicle would be the warmth from the fire started when you're charging it at home and the House burns down, but that would be a one time thing.

There are a lot of problems with EVs during an evacuation. Most evacuations result in traffic jams. The winter traffic jam on I-95 this last winter revealed a big one. After several hours many EVs ran out charge. If a gas vehicle runs out of gasoline, a gallon can of gasoline will get it going again. Not so with an EV. There is no such thing as a portable can of recharge electricity. The vehicle has to be towed to a recharge station and spend hours getting recharged. Picture what will happen if even 50vehicles need to be towed. It would take many hours to clear such a gridlock.

No, no. Some of the progressive experts have let the cat out of the bag. There is no way that enough batteries can be produced to replace all gas vehicles so when gas vehicles are outlawed, YOU will NOT be allowed to have a car. So when there is a natural disaster evacuation, YOU will have to stay where you are and DIE. It's a worthy sacrifice to make to save the environment.