# The electric car future - problems **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-car-future-problems/846963 "2020-01-25T17:57:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![3AxisCtrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/ecd19e/32.png) [@3AxisCtrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3AxisCtrl)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-car-future-problems/846963/102 "2021-02-19T05:20:38Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > If you have an electric car, you can draw on the battery to supply power to the house in the event of a power outage. Or, if there is a spike in demand, the utility could draw power from the EVs plugged into garages all over the region … In theory, yes. In practice, the cost & hassle of the necessary wiring and control circuitry would seriously restrict the appeal of this. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-car-future-problems/846963/103 "2021-02-19T05:35:10Z")
Some Tesla owners in Texas have been sleeping in their cars with the heat on. The new heat-pump models especially should go for quite a few hours that way. No risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, either. The electricity hasn’t been down continuously, either, just for long periods and often at inopportune times (like at night). So the EV has an opportunity to recharge when the power is available and can run on the battery otherwise. EV critics like to concoct extreme scenarios where they don’t work well (while failing to imagine scenarios where fossil fuel cars have problems). But we have a real disaster situation happening right now and EVs seem to be handling it just fine and are even proving to be a boon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-car-future-problems/846963.md?page=5)