Some electric cars can power devices and even homes during blackouts and other extreme weather events. Picture: BLOOMBERG
The Fergusons, who have been in Florida since 2013 and lived through Hurricane Irma, weren’t thinking of natural disasters when they ordered their Lightning in May of last year. Westley had long wanted an EV and Sarah, who works in healthcare management, wanted a truck to haul things for her side business hosting picnics. Before Ian, they had mainly used the truck’s 12 power outlets — spread between the bed, the cabin, and the frunk — for boondocking overnight on the Space Coast.
“Nothing in our market research indicates emergency preparedness is a notable why-buy in the EV market,” says Mark Schirmer, a spokesperson for the research shop Cox Automotive, which routinely surveys buyers on their purchase decisions. “Consumers mostly prioritise price, monthly payment, range and styling. Emergency preparedness is perhaps a nice-to-have.”
On the night before Ian made landfall, Christine Cannella plugged her Rivian R1T pickup into the charger at her gated community in Fort Myers, Florida, to top off its battery. When Ian arrived, it knocked out power at Cannella’s house for five days — the truck became her backup. Rivian doesn’t yet offer V2H charging, but Cannella used the R1T’s on-board outlets to make coffee and to cook hot dogs on an electric grill for herself and her son.
“I would encourage folks to do egress studies,” says Shawn Adderly, a program manager at Pacific Gas and Electric in San Francisco and lead author of the 2018 paper, “so we know how many charging stations we should have and where to put them based on anticipated traffic jams.” Jeremy Judkins lives in North Port, on the Gulf Coast between Sarasota and Fort Myers. A 33-year-old former banker, Judkins now spends his time making videos for TikTok, YouTube and other social media platforms — many of them focused on the Tesla Model X Plaid edition he got in May of this year and the solar panels and Tesla Powerwall batteries he installed in 2020.
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