I saw some recent estimates of the incremental amount of electrical power needed if all cars were instantaneously replaced with EVs (I don't believe it included trucks). The amount was surprising small - about a 30% increase would be needed. This is encouraging as this is not an insurmountable amount and there is time (about 20 years) to ramp up electrical production. I say about 20 years because the transition will be slow as the average age of cars today is about 12 years and gas cars will still be produced 10 years from now. The bad news is that electrical production has been constant for the last decade at about 4T kWh.
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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Yet you ignore that the electric grid cannot support all of these new EVs. Yes, in time, maybe they will, but that is DECADES in the future, if ever at all...
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