In my area, they just came on and basically told us there's nothing they can do about the power outages, the grid is simply overloaded.

Wow.

But, we're all supposed to be driving electric cars in 30 yrs or less.

Putting the cart before the horse?

Speaking of electric cars........IF we were driving electric cars and this situation happened, how would you get anywhere? What if you had an emergency and you HAD to get out? "Suck it up, the battery's dead"