Well, first of all, no, you're not running three thousand-watt block heaters off of one 120v/15a circuit.

Second, actually, you can get chargers like the Grizzl-E Duo that have multiple charging heads off of one circuit.

Third, 'fuel injection' doesn't heat up your oil. Nor does it defrost your windshield.

Yes, assuming that in this made-up scenario of yours, you're sleeping, fully clothed, on top of the blankets, with your work phone strapped to your ear, your go-bag handcuffed to your secondary hand, and your car keys strapped to your dominant hand.

Otherwise, you get the call, you use your car app to preheat your car (shit, mine ties into siri, so I can just tell it to preheat the car while I'm, you know, getting dressed, using the washroom, getting a coffee, whatever.

Ah, yes, good old fluffernutter, who for some reason hates EVs with a passion.

but what if your work calls and there's a problem and you have to leave sooner? EVs are sure going to suck for people who are on-call and may have to leave at any time.

Having been in this scenario, I can tell you exactly how it works when you have to jump in the car and go somewhere when it's -30c.

"Ok, I understand, I'll be in." *clicks hang-up button.* *opens car app.* *clicks 'climate start.'* *clicks 'winter.'*

Then, you get dressed, grab your stuff, walk outside, unplug the car, climb in to your warmed up, conditioned EV, and toot toot off.

This is as opposed to how this exact scenario worked when I drove an ICE car, which meant either a) going outside, starting the car, and letting it run cold, which is bad, or b) getting in, and driving it slow for the first ten minutes, shivering and trying to breathe as shallowly as possible to keep the inside of the windshield from frosting up.

Or you just jump in the EV and drive off, and it's still going to heat up faster, easier, and cleaner, *and* you're not damaging your engine by trying to push semi-solid oil around.

I've not tried charging mine in cold weather at a rapid charger, but I'm sure the charging controls will use some of the power to heat the battery, as otherwise it wouldn't be able to accept the charge.

A good EV, when you use the in-car nav to let the car know you're heading to a DC fast charger, will start warming up the batteries ahead of time. Some just have a 'condition the batteries for charging' button. Otherwise, yes, when you connect, the batteries will use the DC power to warm up, but this is obviously less efficient.

Ok, bud.

The best contrived example you could come up with is 'being invited to a wedding the next day?'

Shit, many of us are old enough to remember having to plug your ICE car in overnight so it would start in the morning.

EV is GREAT for ultra cold weather, because you can pre-heat without needing to worry about the engine.

Sure, and 100 years ago, 'infrastructure' was 'hay troughs, water troughs, hitching posts and stables.'

And getting in a high voltage electric service is a one-time capex, whereas maintaining and refilling underground fuel tanks is an awful lot of ongoing opex.

Never forget that in the 1800s, aluminum was more rare than platinum, and was treated as such, right up until somebody scienced hard enough.

That's how I played Sid Meier's PIRATES! in monochrome on a Tandy 1000, as I recall.

I was thinking the other day about how amazing C64 games were. Flight sims, air traffic control sims, the Gold Box games, it was ridiculous.

Sure, those flight sims targeted 4 FPS, and were more akin to fancy arcade shooters than actual sims, but still.

Shit, my PC was built in 2012, with a pair of GeForce 660s in SLI (since updated to a 1050, wheeeee) and you're goddamn right I went with 32gb of ram.

Oh my god, dude, how much are the gas companies paying you?

You run into the same things with gas cars. Oh, I'll just pop into the gas station on the way to work. If it's open when I'm driving to work. If it's not busy. If the pumps aren't down. If you don't mind standing there in the weather pumping for five minutes. If you don't mind the gas stench. If you remembered your wallet. If if if.

If you're not running gas, your stove is probably 240, your dryer is probably 240, and if you have central AC, it's probably running 240.