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Backup generators, pre stocked fuel, and manual pumps are all cheap ways to provide redundancy.

Providing redundancy for EV fleet vehicles is much more expensive.

It all relies on the cost of the battery going down.

Backup generators And prestocked fuel? Sounds like the same approach, actually? Plus you can supplement with on-premises solar/battery.

We already know from many other hurricanes during the last few years that there is usually scattershot electricity supplies. It takes longer to get more gas. It's surprisingly the case that we know from the last 10 years that EVs work at least as well as gas cars, and when gas runs out and it wasn't resupplied gas cars work better.

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