Hurricane evacation and electric vehicles

[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Imagine a Beowolf cluster road train of these.

I just got done laughing. I haven't been to slashdot since being slashdotted was a thing.

[freebeard]

I still check it every day. Digg and Boing Boing not so much.

The UNIX Fortune today is

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the combination is locked up in the safe. -- Peter DeVries

[slowmover]

“Imagine a road train”.

Electricity is the master, not the servant. Any endeavor. Wake up.

I’ll imagine it just fine in a hurricane evac where the magic 150-mile mark is broached. Everyone else’s 3-5/mpg problem is broken.

If I still lived in hurricane country I’d have the 100-gal transfer tank given to me but never installed and then gave away. 135-gals total.

80% of which at 4-mpg crawl with trailer in tow is well past 400-miles. Heavy traffic with stop/go problems per volume farther inland, a 50% reduction from normal vacation travel is still 800-miles of range with a 35-gallon reserve.

And I won’t need hotel reservations.

So, THE REAL QUESTION, is what would be the cost of a trailer-mounted diesel-powered high-speed electric car charging system where two weeks near-constant use paid for it plus any expenses incurred. As there’s an electric car sucker born every minute.

20X normal cost. 50? 250? 2,000? Ha! Take it or leave it. Just like US pharmaceuticals.

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[JSH]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Not a hurricane but you get the idea.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesl...aign=buffer-bi

Seems like an excellent reason for couples to pair an EV with an ICE and use the ICE for road trips and the EV for urban tasks.

[Xist]

In case of emergency your Prius can power your house: https://www.yourmechanic.com/article...by-elan-mcafee

I read a different post about that a while ago. Generators are loud, have small gas tanks, and you need to worry about someone stealing them.

Nobody wants a Prius!

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by slowmover

Electricity is the master, not the servant. Any endeavor. Wake up.

I agree about Big AC. They are empowered by Nicola Telsa spinning at high RPM over the perversion of his dream.

OTOH, magic rocks that sit in the sun and make electricity are individually empowering.

And then you have antiquitech.

Antiquitech - flatearthbritish

In case of emergency your Prius can power your house:

Alternatively, your house can suck the Prius dry so you can't go anywhere.

[Xist]

Fortunately, bikes and gas cans exist.

[oil pan 4]

Well the hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico is about to get super charged by solar storms due to arrive now, and tomorrow. It's probably going to land fall as a cat 5.
Better GTFO.

[aerohead]

Seems as if folks living in hurricane-affected regions have up to three weeks in which to ponder strategies for dealing with the situation, as soon as systems make it off the west coast of Africa and begin trekking towards them.
If three weeks isn't enough for them to have their priorities and contingencies sorted out, they're not gonna make it anyway, electric car or not.
I can walk 30-miles a day. 50-miles on a bicycle is just 'recreation.'
Grade-school arithmetic saves lives!
Caveat Emptor.

[freebeard]

Still think a fully skirted vehicle with a Chaparall-style auxiliary engine-powered active aero system could ride things out on any flat surface.