Any automobile crash is a complicated scenario. Sorting it out involves looking at a number of variables. Fire departments are now confronting a new wrinkle: electrified vehicles.

What if motorists had not merely endured a blackout in California, but needed to flee a natural disaster that presented imminent, life-threatening dangers?

If your EV needs a charge while you're driving across town or across country, what can you do to burn some time? How about shopping, seeing a movie, catching a meal or hitting the Internet?

Knowledge is power. And knowledge about power can be a life-and-death matter to the people responsible for keeping us safe.