While eliminating the carbon from liquid-fueled vehicles will help with climate change, there will be some consequences that need to be planned for when thinking about disaster situations.
One of the typical infrastructure damages that happens across many types of hazards/disasters is that the electrical grid and distribution of power can be severely disrupted.
With an all-electric response fleet, we’ll need alternative emergency power-generating systems fueled by gasoline or diesel and with a new system of mobile generating hookups to recharge vehicles.
What do you do when a vehicle has been out all day responding and the operations are 24/7 and the vehicle needs to be dispatched for the next 12-hour period?
Charging vehicles will surely evolve with even more rapid charging solutions coming forward, but we need to be thinking about these situations now.
Lastly, I was also thinking about flooding situations where it is typical to see responder vehicles negotiating flooded streets. How does that work with an electrically powered vehicle?
More design modifications please!
