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

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If you're going to wait in line for an hour, would you rather fill your vehicle, or fill your vehicle plus 50 additional gallons worth of cans...

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Your local gas stations don't ration fuel when there's a run on the pumps before a storm?

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And IF you decide to fill your vehicle with electricity from a generator, how long are you willing to wait?

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This is worst-case scenario with zero planning. I'm just saying it's possible.

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Hint: I call fill my car in 5 minutes and leave the state if I needed to... you cannot... it's not an infrastructure problem, it's a suboptimal vehicle problem...

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I assure you that any EV driver in Florida that wants to leave the state (or just the impact area) will be able to.

I know it's some folks' wet dream to see a bunch of EVs littering the highway after a storm (while ignoring the gas vehicles littering the highway), but EVs are not as "suboptimal" as you want them to be.

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and we KNOW you arent feeding that energy back into your house because that would be an absolutely STUPID waste of resources (time and energy usage)

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Why? A fully charged EV with a proper setup could easily run an AC unit a couple hours a day to take the edge off and keep it livable for a week or more. Or it can run a window unit 6 or 8 hours a day for a week. And if paired with a natgas generator, or solar w/ or w/o home storage, then your power and transportation needs are handled indefinitely, regardless of whether the gas stations near you have power or fuel.