Electric Vehicles In An Emergency
In 2017, the unique weather conditions over the Atlantic parented a great many storms, including Hurricane Harvey, one of the costliest storms that has ever occurred. Harvey wracked up more than 120 billion dollars in damage. Many people lost their lives to this devastating storm and many more lost their homes and vehicles to the flooding. If you must pack up and leave town to avoid a disaster, can your EV get you safe?
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In 2017, no one in my family had an electric car. We mostly live on the East coast, and when a storm comes, we make an educated decision on whether or not to leave based on how the storm has affected other areas prior to us. Usually, storms don’t just pop up as really terrible over-night, so there’s at least a day’s warning to get out of Dodge so to speak. When hurricane Harvey rolled through in 2017, the state of Florida practically shut down, anticipating another instance of massive flooding and power outages