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I am talking about resiliency, so the point is the grid does not become a single point of failure for residential, industrial, commercial, and transportation. I
by sgc 4y ago
I am talking about resiliency, so the point is the grid does not become a single point of failure for residential, industrial, commercial, and transportation. If you get trapped in a disaster zone because you can't charge, and the hybrid can add a couple gallons of hydrocarbons to move to safer ground, that matters. The best of all worlds would be plug-in hybrids which still have 100+ mile ev range, so that the hybrid part is mainly for emergencies.
If every single house and business had solar, then yes. But that is much less likely to happen than just upping the ev range on hybrids and using them very close to a backup solution, like a gas generator on a house.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoGas stations run on electricity, and in my personal experience none the of the ones in my area have generators. I've got both an EV and a gasoline car. My EV is almost guaranteed to have 250 miles of range on the day of an emergency because it gets plugged in every night. OTOH my gasoline car might have 400 miles of range if I filled it up the day before, but it's just as likely to have 50 miles because it's sitting at an eighth of a tank. An emergency evacuation also likely means traffic jams. An electric car goes further in low speed stop and go traffic than it does at highway speed. OTOH, a gasoline car can halve its range in stop and go traffic.
- sgc 4y agoPeople with EVs in Ukraine have had big problems. One generator per 5k vehicles is not hard to do. It's not just about that one trip, but surviving long enough to actually be able to extricate yourself from a difficult situation. Traffic as you mentioned, and other very real dangers that mean you can't sit in traffic even if you wanted to. Sometimes you need to be able to move after waiting for an extended period of time in an isolated situation. etc.