As we watch the footage of the damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, Thomas Lifson (American Thinker founder and editor) explains in detail why converting to all-electric vehicles is such a bad – and dangerous –idea:
. . . It is fortunate that as of
the current moment, electric vehicles constitute only about
100,000, out of nearly
8 million vehicles registered to drive on Florida’s roads. What if
they all were electric, the (impractical) dream of greenies?
Depending on how heavily loaded
they were, even assuming everyone had a full battery charge, cars from southern
Florida would start running out of juice after 100 – 250 miles. They would then
have to spend hours at recharging stations, which would rapidly be clogged with
other cars and trucks waiting their turn, since an electricity “fill up” can
easily take an hour or more, as compared to a couple of minutes for gasoline.
Cars waiting to be charged would spill onto the highways, potentially
blocking traffic.
Those cars that ran out of juice on
the highway would block traffic. Even assuming that emergency service vehicles
could get to them (unlikely if the entire fleet were electric cars), towing a
portable generator (powered by fossil fuels, of course) and recharging the
stalled vehicles would take plenty of time, as well, further blocking traffic.
The stranded cars would, of course, have no air conditioning, no wipers,
no GPS.
In all likelihood, the highways
would become vast parking lots, trapping their passengers wherever they
happened to be stalled, waiting for the storm and flood waters to reach them,
unable to get to safety. . . .
More here.
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