Fourteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

Electric Vehicles (EV) are a game changer during natural disasters caused by climate change. Every EV, Hybrid, or Plugin-hybrid has enough electric power to power the average home under emergency conditions for days or a week. Now ten years into the EV revolution, Ford has finally mentioned this emergency-power capability in its public announcements of the Ford F150 Electric Pickup, But the capability is there in every EV previously sold and now on the market. We need manufacturers to highlight the capability and make it turn-key user friendly. Not only can EVs power a home, they are also completely mobile and can go to wherever the need is identified. With this inherent capability and the coming waves of EV marketing and purchasing, power outages need no longer be a major disaster. Instead, a power outage becomes more of an inconvenience needing just a few extension cords to work through major weather disruptions. Although dedicated specialized emergency power capability up to several KW (9.6 kw) this paper shows how anyone with zero electrical experience can connect a $100 off-the-shelf inverter from any hardware store cab be connected to the 12v battery of -any- EV and have immediately available e power up to 1 kW or so.