will chevy volt decimate toyota yaris and others

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Originally Posted by slothman86

How about all those people who don't own a home or live somewhere where you don't have access to a plug?

Just like the world was not magically littered with fuel stations overnight, it will take time for the infrastructure for widespread EV use to grow. Such infrastructure will undoubtedly include pay-as-you-go meters at apartment complexes, strip malls, etc. Homeowners will likely be the early adopters due to easier access to outlets, just as we saw with the EVs in California in the late 1990s.

Originally Posted by slothman86

What happens if the power goes out?

The same logic applies to the question, "What if the trucks stop running?". Then you get no more gasoline fuel, just as happens when pipelines have issues, countries embargo each other, etc. This happens in my area from time to time because most of our gasoline and other commodities get shipped to us over the Sierra Nevada mountains from California. Even though NDOT and CalTrans have made huge leaps in the technology they employ to keep I-80 open sometimes things are just too much and they have to close it. Even when it is open doesn't mean every truck, or more accurately every truck driver, can make it over Donner Pass. When this happens some fuel stations run out of gasoline. Starbucks runs out of pastries. Grocery stores run out of some stock. Etc.

When pipelines have issues it can quickly manifest as a fuel shortage. This happened earlier this year in a corridor running from the Gulf coast of Louisiana up into parts of Iowa. For 5 days the gasoline didn't flow, and it only took 3 of those days for fist fights and gasoline thieves to break out in large numbers.

In other words, access to electricity for many of us is just as, if not more than, stable than our access to just about any other commodity, including trucked-in or piped-in gasoline.