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Electric Cars and Gasoline Tax

Discussion in 'Gen 4 Prius Main Forum' started by padroo, Jan 1, 2018.

  1. Starship16

    Starship16 Senior Member

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    Make sure you guys keep your plug-ins and your Primes topped off, and charged up.

    You never know what's coming. :eek: I just like to use caution; be prepared as much as possible.

    I've seen way too many weird events occur in crazy LA-LA Land.
     
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    You can always make up a situation where a specific vehicle will or won’t do the job.
    Perhaps you should only consider a vehicle with a hospital grade filtration system?

    In my area, mass evacuations just don’t happen. Both electric and gas cars have plenty of range to get out of any disaster that I can see happening here.
    As for even less likely societal level disasters (plague, banks all going under at once, etc), I can fuel at home, with or without grid power.
    In general, the most flexible fuel system IMO would be a PHEV with a large gas tank, large battery and capable of running on either gas or electricity without any of the other fuel available.
     
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    Agreed - a PHEV makes a lot of sense, with 30-40km EV range, but then as a hybrid another 1000km. My next car will be a PHEV.

    And - it's 57 years since I last saw a bushfire close-by (about 2 miles away) - which isn't to say there won't be one next week. We're more likely to lose power after severe storms. And it's a long time since I saw a manual pump. But they probably couldn't use one because they couldn't operate the EFTPOS machine to take the client's money.

    Yes, I'd like a TESLA Model 3 - but we don't have very good charging infrastructure here (nor is the 3 available for at least 2 yrs to people who haven't pre-ordered).
     
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    Sounds good to me. Walmart one mile away from me has chargers. :D

    And I don't mind paying the extra gas tax & registration fee. As long as the crazy CA politicians truly use the money for road improvements.

    The only Tesla at WallyWorld. :LOL:
     
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