This just highlights the issue with EV’s. A person is nor even able to plan with help of staff to find working, open charging stations to maintain any type of schedule. So welcome Secretary to your brave new world where YOUR TIME DOES NOT MATTER! Be seeing you number 6........
You also can’t just walk down the road and get a container of electrons when the battery dies. That’s going to be an unfixable problem for EVs. It’s dead simple to pour a can of gas into a car that runs out if it, and the gas in that small can contains a lot of energy to get the car back on the road. It also only take a few seconds to pour it into the tank and get going.
The EV, though, is dead in the water in that scenario. Even if you had some kind of emergency battery to bring to the scene, it’s not going to be able to do anything. It takes high voltage to recharge EVs, and requires very high voltage in the 240 to 900 volt range to charge them in a halfway reasonable timeframe. You could use 120 volts, easily obtained from a common generator or an inverter on a vehicle, but that low voltage will take hours even to generate a partial charge, and gee, what fuels those generators or a vehicle engine driving an inverter?…GASOLINE! Among all the other problems with EVs, the impracticality of quickly “refueling” a dead EV out in the middle of nowhere is a fatal (maybe literally) flaw. Every EV with a dead battery will have to be towed.
YOUR TIME DOES NOT MATTER!
Just another good reason not to own one of those troublesome things! The reasons seem to be continually adding up.