If Your Electric Car Runs Out of Power on the Highway ...

[EPAIII]

  If your electric car runs out of power on the highway, do you walk to a charging station to get a bucket of electricity?

Just asking! 

[bdunham7]

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[Andy Chee]

Get the tow truck to pull your EV along to regenerative charge your battery

[dobsonr741]

Your Tesla makes quite a tantrum before it runs out of range. Plus, you might have range anxiety kicking in much earlier. So the scenario you depicted might never happen, unless someone chasing you on the highway.

[SiliconWizard]

What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?

[Andy Chee]

Build a range extender

[andy3055]

Can  we sell some flux capacitors to these guys? 

[dobsonr741]

What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?

That is the Zombie Apocalypse. A lot of good playbooks written for that case.

[Someone]

What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?

That is the Zombie Apocalypse. A lot of good playbooks written for that case.

As people discover, petrol stations (mostly) rely on the grid for pumping and/or selling fuel. So either way so either way its supply your own or go without.

[pickle9000]

2 electric axles, 30 minute battery, an onboard diesel generator and regenerative brakes. Ideal for the Zombie Apocalypse.

[woofy]

You wouldn't need the bucket. Electrons are like little balls and they spin, so they could just roll down the road.
The empty battery in the EV is depleted of electrons, so it will have a positive charge attracting the rolling electrons.

All you need to do is point the charger plug down the road in the direction of the EV and it will fill up automagically.

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Reminds me of the best description of an electron I've ever heard.
Electrons are like little balls and they spin, except that they aren't and they don't. 

[nctnico]

What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?

That is the Zombie Apocalypse. A lot of good playbooks written for that case.

As people discover, petrol stations (mostly) rely on the grid for pumping and/or selling fuel. So either way so either way its supply your own or go without.

Not really. You can always stick a hand pump into the storage tank and pump the fuel up into your car by hand. What you'll need most is cash to pay for the gas.

[mendip_discovery]

C'mon remember covid, we will run out of loo roll in a few days. Then the world will just go to hell.

I 2013 Channel 4 in the UK did a series called Blackout that covered 5 days without power. I remember that it raised a few eyebrows in the emergency planning rooms.

I enjoy the dooms day prep types as they panic over everything, often over thinking the problem.

Going back to the video, some people are rather stupid. Towing a car at 70mph on a rope. Sod that.

[Andy Chee]

Going back to the video, some people are rather stupid. Towing a car at 70mph on a rope. Sod that.

Have you been living under a rock for the last 10 years?  YouTube is full of people doing stupid things.

[mendip_discovery]

This feeds I to people thinking it's cool. Darwin still at work today. I feel for the emergency services who have to clear this crap up.

[wilfred]

What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?

That is the Zombie Apocalypse. A lot of good playbooks written for that case.

As people discover, petrol stations (mostly) rely on the grid for pumping and/or selling fuel. So either way so either way its supply your own or go without.

When I was a kid I can remember a petrol station had parked an EH Holden wagon about 2 meters from a pump, the pump had the covers removed and the Holden was on a jack with a bare steel rim. They'd fitted a long rubber belt from the pulley in the pump around the rim and ran the pump driven by the car. It was back in the days when pumps only had mechanical dials. You couldn't do that these days. And with cash going out of style you'd be stuffed trying to pay anyway soon enough.

If your EV runs out of fuel you'd be getting it towed. If you had a car that ran on LPG you'd most likely get towed. Portable LPG refills are not readily available in Australia. Or it wasn't when I had one in the nineties. And I think LPG is diminishing in Australia and somethings got to go to make room for EV charging.

[Andy Chee]

What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?

That is the Zombie Apocalypse. A lot of good playbooks written for that case.

I would be using my axe to fell trees to burn for my steam engine generator to charge my EV.  Axe comes in handy for the zombies as well.

[xrunner]

  If your electric car runs out of power on the highway, do you walk to a charging station to get a bucket of electricity?

Just asking! 

Very simple and easy: call for a tow with your cell phone and relax.

A better question to ask "what if my cell phone runs out of power on the highway while driving my electric car and my car runs out of power?". Well connect the phone to your portable USB power pack.

What if you forgot to bring the power pack? Then you shouldn't be driving a long way from home by yourself if you can't be prepared. 

[coromonadalix]

cary a trailer with a generator  loll

or do like the back to the future, add some antimatter converter some banana peels and other waste  and have fun   

[schmitt trigger]

If my electric car ran out of battery on a deserted highway, it would be such a negative experience for me, that I would re-charge the battery with my excess free electrons.

[coppice]

What if there's a grid blackout and you have an emergency?

That is the Zombie Apocalypse. A lot of good playbooks written for that case.

As people discover, petrol stations (mostly) rely on the grid for pumping and/or selling fuel. So either way so either way its supply your own or go without.

Not really. You can always stick a hand pump into the storage tank and pump the fuel up into your car by hand. What you'll need most is cash to pay for the gas.

But where can you get the gas needed to drive to a store where you can get a hand pump? I remember when gas stations actually had some backup facilities. Decades of ultra reliable public power supplies have lead to most of that being dropped. Do places with regular power problems (tornado alley, etc.) still have hand pumping facilities as a backup?

[CatalinaWOW]

OK. You keep a hand pump in your car and a Jerry can.  You shlep your way to the gas station and use your lock pick set that you always carry to get access to the tanks (you don't think they are left unlocked do you?).

So preppers, gas is better for short term emergencies. But unless you operate your own wells and refineries an electric car and solar cells will keep you mobile longer than scavenged gas

[Homer J Simpson]

2025 Ram Ramcharger has a complete regular V6 Petrol engine to run the charging generator.

[Andy Chee]

2025 Ram Ramcharger has a complete regular V6 Petrol engine to run the charging generator.

You don't *have* to use the V6.  You can plug it in like any other plug-in hybrid.  If you keep to short trips, you can survive on electric mode only.

[CatalinaWOW]

So it's a hybrid, not a pure electric.  Might be pretty good.  3.6 liters is small in this vehicle class, but should be enough to maintain speed except for fully loaded hill climbs.  The electric provides acceleration and other heavy load help and does everything on short trips.  So good performance, good range, fair to good mileage at the cost of complexity.  Potentially a really good match for a lot of use cases.  Same idea as the Chevy Volt, which a lot of people love, and which I would have owned if I could physically get into one.  The Volts were definitely not for big people.

Doesn't sound terminally dumb to me.