re: Hopefully EV owners in Florida are filling up cans with electricity for the coming days

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there is a source of gasoline there is a source of electricity. What is so difficult about this?

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The ‘source’ of gasoline in a massive electric system outage is the gasoline stored in containers by people who prepared ahead of time.

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First, people who drive gas cars are obviously smart enough to fill up ahead of a storm, but EV owners are too dumb to fully charge the day/night before.

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Without even trying I have enough gas cans on hand to provide a second full tank of fuel for my glorious V8 powered truck. Assuming I filled the first tank in the truck I would have almost 900 miles of ‘range’ sitting around ready to be used at a moments notice. Are you getting 900 miles of range on your charge the night before?

No, you aren’t. But you can turn on your ICE generator to bail out your dead batteries, which sorta turns your EV into an ICE vehicle. Or, you can ask your neighbor to tow your EV with his ICE vehicle for regenerative braking I guess.

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look how far you're stretching to contrive a bad scenario to rely on an EV

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And you continually contrive overly positive scenarios, or gloss over the complexities of the solutions you propose.

But, if the differences are as minimal as you are implying, why aren’t storm first responder vehicles being powered by electricity? Line Trucks, pickups, ambulances, etc.