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Saying EVs don't work after emergencies because the power will be off ignores that places run out of gas too.

Previous post hurricane situations lead to gas shortages, electricity seems to be more available in a scattered way, gas runs out often. Infra of course can go bad, but the situation of (better have a gas car after a hurricaine/emergency instead of an ev) is another one of those things that has turned out not to be an issue. It's also a thing that places run out of gas for a while, or the gas station doesn't work because it lost power and they didn't wire for a generator. Unfortunately it requires saying that "evs don't work in this scenario" is another piece of fud, along with they catch on fire all the time, need new batteries all the time. EVs are made by humans, they have limitations, just like all vehicles, but they work fine generally.

There are lots of examples where post hurricane there wasn't much gas

2017 - https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/09/florida-gas-shortage-... Shortage of gas after hurricanes.

2012 - Gas runs short after a hurricane in NJ https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/nyregion/gasoline-shortag...

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/28/apparently-we-need-to-t... - discusses the FUD accounts that become active after a disaster, evs actually good for idling in heavy traffic leaving hurricane.