Primer for EV's.
Not all EVs are Teslas... most EVs are reworked gas cars. Not all EVs are expensive. If you need a car that's cheap to get back and forth to your 9 to 5 job, there are several "undesirable" EVs such as Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt, Fiat 500e. You can pick up a used one for cheap. They require no maintenance at all... no oil changes, no tranny flushes, nothing except tires.

If you have solar at your house they can run on sunshine. You plug them in when you get home from work and they are full the next day. This is the part that people don't understand. The normal car requires you to fuel up on the way home a time or two a week. EVs are full every day. So you do not have to live near a public charging station. They can charge off anything from 120v outlet to a dryer plug to an RV plug in your garage.

If you need to travel you will need to use public fast chargers. All other cars use a different plug than Tesla. This is where it sucks to not have a tesla. The CCS (non tesla) stations are often unreliable and you have to call the vendor to get them to reset the charger. Tesla just works... every time.

Now a little tech info. Where a gas car is rated in MPG (or liters/100km), an EV is rated in wh/mile or wh/km. Watthours. A kilo watt hour of electricity is 12c in my area. So my car gets 250wh/mile or 4 miles per 1000wh. That comes to about $0.12 / 4 miles = 3cents a mile. Just yesterday I drove 150 mile round trip on 40kwh of electric. That's $4.80 in electric. In a 25mpg car I would have burned 6 gallons x $4.50 = $27. THIS IS WHY ELECTRIC CARS.

Fire drill: Your well pump just failed. Do you have the parts to pull it? Pipe unions? Waterproof splice kit? Spare pressure switch? Spare pump? Teflon tape? Do you have a hand pump? Or a bailing bucket?

In an effort to stop the spammers, we have installed a bot to check you at the door. She will also check for certain keywords. Alas she is a cruel mistress and if you use one of these keywords or phrases you'll be booted but can rejoin. Sorry for the inconvenience. This is why we can't have nice things.

If the lights went out right now.... Could you cook dinner? Open cans of spaghetto's for the kiddos? Did you know that you can reuse the water hot dogs were cooked in to make ramen noodles? Adds a nice flavor. And yes I'm kidding. ewwwww....

For some, making dinner when the power is out is the difference between not eating and having enough battery in your cellphone to order door dash.

Folks, what's in your go bag? Jerky? scooby snacks? I had some MREs stored in a shed in the back yard for 10 years and there were NOT NOT NOT good when I opened one. Is your emergency food in good shape?

Handy idea: we don’t smoke but my mother in law did. We have an entire shoe box full of old disposable lighters.

Fire drill: have you checked your get home bag lately? Expired protein bars? Got a pistol in it? Ever considered an AR7 breakdown rifle? Extra boots? Paracord? Small camo tent? Avoid camping gear that is brightly colored. How about a paper map? Do you know what a back azimuth is?

Flipping awesome green house. https://youtu.be/24X-qdeeZUQ

For all ya'll (or is it all You'uns) that think the russians are coming.

More from my library

Every type of barn you can imagine.

Did you know that 2x4's in a wall are thermal bridges? You might have a 3-1/2" thick insulation, but every 16 inches you have a thermal bridge. New codes allow for 2x6 walls on 24" centers to lessen bridging.

Change the way you frame a corner to allow insulation all the way into the corner.