ELECTRIC-CAR OWNERS shocked by California blackouts.

Weeks can be a long wait if you’re looking at a Model 3 in your garage with a drained battery, no electrical power to charge it, and the closest grocery store with power 80 miles away. But such is life in the Golden State, where forests and chaparral are all on hair triggers ready to ignite with slightest transformer malfunction or transmission line break.

So if you're a Californian who bought an electric car to save the environment, now you can't drive it because of the risk to the environment.

Heh. In the dark with no way to go....