Drive around town and plug in when you get home, or hop on the highway and join a "road train," sharing battery power in series with other vehicles.

Several landslides covered roads, some highways buckled, a few bridges collapsed and bullet trains stopped, but two nuclear power plants in the region were not affected, officials said.

Most trains and subway lines were close, flights were cancelled, and the streets in Buenos Aires remained empty as roadblocks were set up to access routes to the capital.