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Re:Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption by athms on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:34PM (#25878248)
>Simple: most people charge at night.

Except the people that don't have a charging station in their garage or folks that have a power outage. Just this week, we had a heat wave (70-80F) and winds up to 90MPH across California that resulted in power outages throughout the state as well as several fires.

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Re:Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption by qndreoi on Friday January 22, 2021 @11:54PM (#25879780)
It seems that gas stations would not work during a power outage. Santa Ana winds cause lots of edge case problems.
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Re:Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption by erik_seaberg on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:37AM (#25880968)
“What if all the gas pumps go offline because of power or network outages” was a pretty scary failure mode they were thinking about before Y2K.
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Re:Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption by athms on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:01AM (#25881115)
You are right, but I have cans of gasoline as part of my emergency kit in case of an earthquake or fire.
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