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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are that worried can you leave an old bike at work (with an air pump for the tires). [/quote]

Make sure you have at least one gas car to commute in on, and keep the tank full.

You don't want to be driving an electric car during an evacuation.  Ask the folks who had to evacuate during the California wildfires.  Electric cars running out of charge and blocking the roads make efficient evacuation really tough. [/quote]

Gas cars running out of gas also make efficient evacuation really tough.  There is nothing especially dangerous or inefficient about an EV in this scenario. Just make sure it’s well charged, just like you’d make sure a car has sufficient gas. If it is, no worries.

The best would actually be a hybrid, since you could avoid gas stations and charging stations. And that’s what Californians seem to be attracted to, given that gas stations became very dangerous during the wildfires.[/quote]

Cars running out of gas are not the same as electric cars dying on the side of the road.

You can pop a dead gas car into neutral and easily push it off the road.

A road assistant or DOT crew or even a walker can bring a few jugs gallon of gas, pour a gallon or so into each car, and give them enough juice to get off the road or to the next exit.  You can fully gas a gas car in 5 minutes or less, and go much longer and further.  You cannot do that with electric cars.  It takes hours to charge them and the range is very limited

Talk to people who tried to evacuate the LA wildfires.  Electric cars were a huge issue during evacuations.  Gas cars were not.[/quote]

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