Electric-Car Owners Shocked by California Blackouts

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Weeks can be a long wait if you’re looking at a Model 3 in your garage with a drained battery, no electrical power to charge it, and the closest grocery store with power 80 miles away. But such is life in the Golden State

I guess they should have bought solar panels or a generator. Especially, since CA is known to have outages frequently.

My brother in-law has solar panels on his house in Stockton which are connected to the grid but if the power fails there is no power to the house from the panels.

Too bad, so sad.

LOL.

And this was why I said years ago I would never buy an electric only car. Hybrid yes, Tesla No.

The sweet irony of having to have a gasoline generator to charge your electric car...

Bicycle?
Usually nice weather in Cali year round, get out and bicycle!

5 stars...just for the title...No pun intended, right OP? lol

Peace

Saving the planet!

Pure stupidity should never take precedence over common sense, uh muh green initiative!

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Turn of power to prevent fires... forget what we used to light homes before electricity....hint:fire. Over 18,000 homes burn annually from candles. 1,500 homes burned in the California wildfires. But ya let them turn off your power! When your shits on fire hopefully your phone is charged to be able to call the fire department. Califucking Stupid!

Only a fucking idiot would tie their solar power to the grid. If it's tied to the grid they will shut you off too when they shut down.

and if the batteries are dead for an extended period of time they're fucked

think laptop batteries
same shit

if they've been dead for a week without charging
they're basically fucked and don't hold a charge

I always wanted to get an electric car with a trailer and a big ass diesel generator to power it while spewing tons of black smoke

energy losses close to 80% during conversion but
how cool would that be...

Stick with gas cars until something real groundbreaking comes out..which it never will.

and that's like 99.8 percent of all solar systems out there

the other day in costco I asked the solar booth rep:
so you sell batteries with your systems now?, what's the capacity?

they said yes, about $15K and they're good for about 3 hours

No what's the capacity of the battery- usually in ampere hours?

they guy: ahhhhh ahhhhh I don't know but usually 3 to 5 hours..

Mr Rothschild will not allow that until he can put a meter on it

You have not seen the most recent studies? These electric cars have proven worse for environment than gas cars. the batteries and components are worse and the amount of electricity it takes to power them is worse for CO2. Go Amish!

All of a sudden I really want to see this in a Mad Max movie.

OP is right. Its best to use cars powered by non renuable resources.

can you take the patients to their dialysis session with yours?

Uber!

Only dumb people driving e-cars.

You misunderstood.

The purpose of the blackout is not to prevent fires.

The purpose is to absolve the electic company for fiscal responsibility for fires.

If you are negligent, light a candle and it gets out of hand and burns down a town... YOU are on the hook for it, not PG&E.

The electric company got sued, plaintiffs alleged faulty grid started the fire, cost them millions. PG&E, seeing how that game is played, elects to turn off power rather than fix their antiquated and overloaded equipment. There's no law saying they can't.

I have a feeling there's going to be an upswell of angry customers. Laws will get changed, power will flow, consumers and taxpayers as usual will be the ones taking it in the shorts.

That's actually a good point.

I hate to say it, but if someone needs a hospital to survive, the responsible thing is to live within walking distance of one. There will always be failures in infrastructure and transportation. Why end your life for a simple earthquake, storm, or bizarre new California law?

Already in effect in remote regions:
(actually it's diesel, even more offensive to the leftist greenies)

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it's coming

What are street lights powered by????