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In order to run a gas pump you have to have a specific type of generator that runs what's called a "clean sine wave" meaning they have to have a even, uniform output. That is he exact type of generator which can also power an EV. So if you are relying on a special generator to power your gas car, than you can also rely on a special generator to power your EV.
No. A generator at a gas station fills everybody's car with gas, an EV needs that generator to themselves for over an hour. When you're part of a hurricane evacuation and dealing with the aftermath you can back with us.
Another moving of the goal posts. The infrastructure that currently exists was enough for the EV cars that curently exist. If more EV come aboard than infrastructure will increase to support that.
But pretending there for some reason it would be impossible to make such an infrastructure is silly at best.
Recharging stations will never be as prolific as gas stations. The entire concept of EVs is that you can recharge at home so nobody is going to put a supercharger at every corner. So if everybody had an EV and had to evacuate they would be hosed. This will always be true.
But if you have to your make up scenarios that don't exist to prove your point, your point is insupportable. You might as well ask what if it was eternal night? What if the zombie apocalypse? What if whatever.
For your scenario to be meaningful, superchargers would need to have one station, many of the ones in Florida and along high ways have 20 stalls.
You would also need to have the exact same infrastructure but hundreds of times more electric vehicles.
You literally had to change reality in order to make your point. Why? Because otherwise you can't make your point. Really says far more about how weak your point is than anything else.
You're seriously not getting it. You want to play cheerleader for EVs so hard you're blind to the downsides of everybody having one and you're trying to shout down anybody trying to wake you up to that fact.
Recharging stations will never be as prolific as gas stations. The entire concept of EVs is that you can recharge at home so nobody is going to put a supercharger at every corner. So if everybody had an EV and had to evacuate they would be hosed. This will always be true.
No. A generator at a gas station fills everybody's car with gas, an EV needs that generator to themselves for over an hour. When you're part of a hurricane evacuation and dealing with the aftermath you can back with us.
1. I have dealt with a hurricane evacuation and year long recovery. So I guess I can stick around.
2. Now owning a generator is somehow selfish? Nice try but your no longer just building strawman but crossing over into the ridiculous.
You're seriously not getting it. You want to play cheerleader for EVs so hard you're blind to the downsides of everybody having one and you're trying to shout down anybody trying to wake you up to that fact.
Except the question was "did anyone get away from Irma in a Tesla?" And the answer was yes, dozens of times over. Not "are EVs perfect?" as you seem to insist on pretending this thread is about.
P.s. The title can be seen literally at the top of every page of the thread.
Recharging stations will never be as prolific as gas stations. The entire concept of EVs is that you can recharge at home so nobody is going to put a supercharger at every corner. So if everybody had an EV and had to evacuate they would be hosed. This will always be true.
And yet it is still 100% irrelevant to the question at hand, which was "did anyone get away from irma in a Tesla?" Teslas and other EVs proved their utility as evacuation vehicle as many people used them as such. That is not a statement of opinion but fact. EVs are a new technology whose advantages and limitations are not even completely understood but the fact that you have to endlessly make things up about the question at hand shows how emotional and irrational you are about them. Maybe calm down and realize the existence of electric cars doesn't actually harm you and neither does the fact people did use them to escape Irma.
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