Twee dagen geleden...
Voor diegene die met een Tesla 60 KWh batterij rijden die krijgen per remote 15 kWh extra vrijgeschakeld moest het van pas komen de volgende zware laadpaal te bereiken, vele waren verrast...:
Citaat:
https://electrek.co/2017/09/09/tesla...urricane-irma/
Millions of people are currently affected by the evacuation of Florida as Hurricane Irma starts reaching the state and creates some difficult traffic situation when escaping north. There are reports of traffic jams and gas stations running out gas.
There are a lot Tesla owners in Florida and they are also escaping north using the Supercharger network.
Now Tesla has even facilitated travels for some of them as the automaker remotely unlocked the full battery pack capacity of Model S/X 60/60D vehicles with 75 kWh battery packs.
That’s due to Tesla using an unforeseen feature of their over-the-air software update system.
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Die weinige E-wagens geraken zelfs gemakkelijker weg, wel trager wegens minder rijbereik, maar ze kunnen wel overal stroom vinden vóór dat de razende orkaan ook de stroomverzorging kan doen uitvallen, soit dan heeft niemand nog iets, want zonder stroom werkt er bijna niets meer, tenzij voor mensen die genoeg noodstroom hebben via generator en genoeg fuel, of evntl zonnepanelen en powerwall(s).
Maar waar stroom altijd kan vloeien als de electriciteitscentrales werken (en de leidingen intakt blijven), is het voor de tankstations die met vrachtwagens snel genoeg bevoorraad moeten worden veel erger, zonder brandstof geraak je niet weg of verder. Vliegtuigen vliegen niet meer (vluchten geschorst), treinen zijn al overboekt enz...
Bovendien wil men genoeg spullen kunnen meenemen bij zo'n miljoenen-evacuatie, ondertussen wslk al 8 miljoen die evacueren...
En de mensen die niet evacueren bunkeren natuurlijk ook zoveel mogelijk benzine op, want na Irma of ... zal het ook dagenlang wachten zijn op benzine, want zonder stroom is een tankstation ook nutteloos.
Dus de benzinebevoorrading wordt al -wslk meer dan een week- sterk opgedreven onder politie-escorte. Vele tankstations, 30 tot 60% van de tankstations zelfs hadden geen brandstof meer. De vraag was gewoon te hoog, dag en nacht natuurlijk.
Urenlang aanschuiven en dan oeps toch geen
gasoline meer... wat nu?
Het is zelfs zo erg dat men tankvrachtwagens in ## kolonnes gaat vervolgen om te weten welk tankstation eerst benzine krijgt?.
Citaat:
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/08/549536...for-floridians
As Hurricane Irma Nears, Gasoline Is In Short Supply For Floridians
September 8, 2017
As Florida drivers hit the road to escape Hurricane Irma, the demand for gasoline has outpaced supply, leaving filling stations throughout the state short of fuel.
"It's horrible, man," said Aaron Izquierdo, who waited in a long line of cars at a Shell station in Doral on Friday. "Just yesterday I was in line for two hours to wait for gas, and by the time we got to the pump there was no gas."
In Gainesville, 60 percent of the gasoline stations were without fuel, according to Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at the crowdsourcing website Gasbuddy.com. In Miami, it was 40 percent.
Even in the Tampa area, far from the expected landfall, more than a third of stations lacked fuel, he said.
Irma is coming fast on the heels of Hurricane Harvey, which clobbered the Texas and Louisiana coasts and left a quarter of the nation's oil refining capacity off-line.
But the problem in Florida isn't supply. It's demand.
Gasoline companies usually know pretty much where a hurricane is going to hit and can target supplies to that area. Irma has been harder to forecast, so a lot more people have chosen to evacuate.
"Unfortunately, because everyone panicked because of the uncertainty...we ended up with shortages in multiples areas of the state," said James Miller, spokesman for the Florida Retail Association.
"The amount of motorists filling their tanks is overwhelming the system. Trucks can't get to the stations fast enough," DeHaan said. "And at the rack, or what some might call fuel terminals, tanker trucks can't be loaded as fast as motorists are filling their tanks."
State officials are trying to keep supplies flowing, by waiving restrictions on the number of hours that truckers transporting gasoline can work and even providing tanker trucks with police escorts. The White House too is trying to make it easier to bring fuel into the country by waiving the Jones Act, which bars foreign-flagged vessels from transporting goods between U.S. ports.
Still, finding fuel can be dicey.
Scott Alderman, who lives in Broward County, was out for a bike ride this morning when he passed a gas station without fuel.
"But a tanker truck was pulling in and, like the pied piper, there were ##15 or 20 cars following him," he said.
Alderman has lived through hurricanes before and knows that, once the electricity goes out, it can be days before gas is available again. So he immediately went into action, racing home to tell his wife to fill up her car.
She got to the station within five minutes, he said. But she still had to wait nearly an hour to fill up her tank.
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