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My last car was an EV. I loved how it drove, I loved charging at home and never having to stop at the gas station, and I told everyone around me, "If you can afford it, you have an ethical obligation to buy a hybrid or an EV." Since Trump 2.0 I've been concerned about some form of collapse that would make me flee my home - natural disaster, violent military occupation, etc. I started to wonder, "What's stopping Elon from limiting access to all these superchargers?" Public chargers are much slower than gas, and they're easily vandalized. The whole thing just seems like a liability at this point. At least in a Mad Max scenario I could barter for a can of guzzoline.
I hate that I'm even considering any of this.
In a mad Max scenario you have 6 weeks of fuel. Even if there's still some left after that point, it'll start to degrade. You might be able to keep a car running for up to a year if you managed to get hundreds of gallons of gas, and keep it stabilized.
Realistically speaking in a total societal collapse scenario, your best bet is staying close to people you know. If you're thinking you could drive off in to the woods somewhere, A: you and everybody else, B: can you run off in to the woods right now? Today, drop everything and just go live off grid? If so, why haven't you, and if not, what makes you think you'll be able to because the power is out?
If you have to flee your home like that, odds are millions of others are doing the same and you're not going to be able to find gas anyway.
I feel like having an EV and solar panels is about as prepared as you can get.
Just shoot someone and take their car running on gas, problem solved ez pz.
But seriously if you're in a situation where our power grid has collapsed I don't think the gas pumps are gonna work either. Besides you could still create a mobile charging solution using solar, I don't think it'd be fast or anything but it might even be more viable than trying to get gasoline in a real shit hits the fan world.
Yeah, solar crates way more independence than combustion fuel. Definitely have to pay a price though, since the upfront cost on a sizeable solar array will set most people back a bit.