A typical stationary electric vehicle (EV) with full battery could likely run its climate settings and electronics for “at least a day, probably many days”

Using the Nissan Leaf electric car (here) as an example, Dr Collett said: “Say the heating was on constantly at 2kW (which would be unlikely due to insulation of the vehicle), even if you only had half the battery charged, you would still have almost 10 hours of heating.

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""" mate had an horrendous journey the other day on the M3 London to Basingstoke. 6 hours due to a major pile up...luckily no one seriously hurt. How would an ev cope with this""

I appreciate that the police have a difficult job to do when accidents occur as sometimes they have to be investigated as a crime. However given the disruption they cause and the cost holding traffic for ages their must be a better way to organise a flow past obstructions or in some circumstances even setting up contraflows especially when they know how long they will take. Toilet concerns are a worry besides running out of fuel both EV and ICE

People tend to underestimate the capacity of a modern EV battery. The 78kWh battery mentioned above would run my electric shower at home for nearly 10 hours, or a typical domestic microwave oven for 87 hours. Genesis recently had an event where they hired a DJ, they powered their equipment from a GV60 using a vehicle to load adaptor. So a small heater to keep the cabin of a car warm is no problem at all.

The electric Ford pickup in the USA has the facility for the owner to plug in power tools etc.

The electric Ford pickup in the USA has the facility for the owner to plug in power tools etc.

I think I read that the battery in that thing weighs 3,000 lbs though.

There are two battery options, 98 or 131kWh (the biggest Tesla battery is 100kWh) and the figures I found say the smaller of the two weighs 1800lbs (816kg). Not sure if it works like this, but assuming the weight directly compares with the kWh figure, that would make the bigger of the two batteries 2412lbs (1094kg). So a massive battery regardless, but then it is a massive vehicle (which can also tow 4.5 tonnes), so no real surprise!.