California power outages: What do EV drivers do when this happens?

same as pip or lift back, with a little longer run time til the ice fires. still a wimpy inverter off the 12v.

in japan, they have an emergency output plug off the hybrid battery

 

Someone asked how long an EV can go without charging...in my case I get 300+ miles on my model 3 and my daily commute is about 20 miles...so including losses I could go almost 2 weeks if I had to.
But since I work in Santa Clara it doesn't matter...this city inside of Silicon Valley has its own power plants independent from PG&E and they aren't shutting them off. No fear of a wildfire here. I live in a PG&E area. Anyone outside of the city of Santa Clara could just drive to the Telsa service center in Santa Clara to charge.
Also Tesla owners can look at the status of nearby Superchargers on the in car map to see if they are available.
Of course, you'll need to have an LTE cell signal to get this info and that relies on the local cell tower having power or backup power and for the Supercharger stations to be able to send out their status.

Tesla still sent a reminder to my car yesterday.
When was the last time that Toyota or any other car maker sent a message to your car reminding you to get gas before a storm or other event?

Mike

 

I have to add one more note.

If the power was out I could actually go much longer than 2 weeks...why would I drive to work if there was no power at work?
And if there was power at work I could charge at work.

Note that PG&E has turned power back on for 99%+ of people who lost power.
No power in fire danger areas...no fires...power back on was apparently mostly easy, unlike in disasters like hurricanes where there is widespread damage.

Also note that SoCal does have a major fire; not PG&E service area and I don't know the cause of the fire but used to live right near this fire long ago.

Mike

 

I would venture to say that rectifiers, whether the "traditional" diode bridge or synchronous types, shouldn't be terribly sensitive to the exact shape of the wave; the remaining electronics would be fed from the battery (-ies), so wouldn't see any waves generated outside of the car. I would suspect that detecting not pure sine may be a tell-tale sign for Tesla that the power is being drawn from an "unknown", potentially unreliable source.