How well do electric cars do in bumper to bumper traffic like we see in the evacuations in Florida?
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They do great. It’s highway driving they’re not that great at. An electric car doesn’t idle like a gas car, so for bumper to bumper traffic it is actually consuming very little power and it can do it all day. But on the wide open highway it’s burning through a lot of its charge just to keep its speed, unlike a gas car which through a combination of having a gearbox and the nature of how their engines work, it can sit quite comfortably at steady highway speeds with better fuel efficiency than bumper to bumper traffic.
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