• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    When a hurricane took power out at a Florida veterinary clinic last year, the Lightning’s giant battery powered it back up. After an elderly man was stranded in California because his electric wheelchair’s battery ran out, a Lightning made it operational again. And during the devastating Kentucky floods in 2022, Ford deployed two Lightnings as mobile generators to support cleanup efforts.

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      5 days ago

      I mean, hurray for the band-aid, but the root of the power outages is crappy infrastructure.

      Even the old man in California is a victim of the fact that there aren’t enough public charging points.

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        Natural disasters like tornados and wild fires are a whole different course of planning from infrastructure design. Your blanket complaint doesn’t address the actual sources of the outages, only complaining about how people get through the after effects.