# Thread on viability of Electric Cars

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-on-viability-of-electric-cars/938612 "2021-03-24T18:28:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-on-viability-of-electric-cars/938612/8 "2021-03-10T23:32:33Z")

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> [@What are your electric vehicle plans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-electric-vehicle-plans/923614/29):
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> For me, it’s hard to imagine the combination of the power being out _and_ needing to drive over 200 miles. We usually just hunker down and wait for it to come back on.

Katrina? Any major flood? Wildfires with the power out? Large scale evacuation orders that overwhelm the charging network?

Here in Canada, if a winter storm like we just had took down the power for an extended period of time and we didn’t have alternatives like gas heat and no way to escape, after the storm is over we’d be finding a LOT of frozen bodies.

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