[mikekchar]

A little late now, but can you get a device to run your house power off the car battery? At least in Japan you can buy one for the Leaf for about $5K. In the power failures following the big typhoon I have heard reports of it coming in quite handy. Of course, you don't drive the car unless it's to a place where you know you can recharge it, but 60 KWh of power will keep your basic fridge/lights/cooking facilities up for quite a long time if you are careful.

[pjc50]

I think his argument is that the car is now unusable and he can't recharge it at home and most of the public stations are down.