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Only EVs Can Make Fuel Off-Grid, Keep Working During Long Power Outages
There’s a lot of complete BS on the internet about EVs. They supposedly would kill you in a snowstorm, but testing shows they’d outlast most ICE vehicles stuck on a snowy road, and keep the heat on for weeks if you switched to seat heaters.
They’re also supposedly no good for hurricane evacuations, but they don’t idle their fuel away when stuck in traffic, so they’d outperform ICE vehicles there, too.
But, one of the sillier criticisms from the less intelligent among the “prepper” crowd is that they’d be worthless during an extended power outage, such as those after major disasters. Or, worse, they’d be a liability in the event of a mega-disaster, like a repeat of the Carrington Event, a solar flare that could kill the power grid for years.
Read the whole story on cleantechnica.com