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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question about EVs: there were some news articles about during Ian, those with electric cars would struggle making it Miami or or other places to evacuate since there aren’t a ton of quick charging stations and traffic could extend trips by many hours. What happens in those situations? Or in CA for wildfire evacuations? I guess it’s not that often but should you keep another hybrid/ gas car around for emergencies? [/quote]

In general, trips being extended by many hours due to traffic is usually not anywhere near as much of a problem for EVs as for gas cars, because they use hardly any electricity sitting in traffic and get far, far better range driving slower than they do at highway speeds. I haven't read the specific articles you're talking about, so I don't know the specifics of these situations. But if you've got an EV that you can charge at home and live somewhere where a sudden evacuation is something you generally need to plan for, you can probably keep the car ready to go just by charging it to 80 percent every night.

If the power goes out, gas stations don't work, either, so personally, if we ever need to flee the D.C. area (??), I'll be taking our larger, safer, newer EV rather than our second car, which is gas-powered.[/quote]

We are looking into an EV but if there is a need to escape, we will be taking our much more simple and capable Jeep -- don't want to be limited to roads.  [/quote]

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