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> Such an impromptu evacuation would not have been possible using EVs.

This is, in fact, precisely backward. A fully charged EV will stomp all over a fully gassed ICE in a stop and go evacuation situation.

EVs don't have to idle. So, unlike older combustion engines, they don't use energy unless moving, and they recover most of the same energy when braking. At very low speeds, EVs stomp all over combustion engines. You don't need to refuel people because the EV isn't running out of gas from idling in stopped traffic.

More modern combustion engines turn themselves off. But, even that has its limits as you can't recover the start stop energy like an EV can.