Some estimates put the additional electricity requirements if all gas autos were replaced with EVs right now at about 1 T kWhs. Since we currently produce about 4 T kWhs each year, this would represent about 25% more than our current production. It may take 30 years to replace all gas autos with EVs so we actually have that much time to ramp up electricity production in the US. Since electricity production in the US has been essentially flat for the last decade, we should probably start working on this ;-). Nuclear continues to have a big public relations issue. It's not clear to me when/if that will turn around.
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Originally Posted by Topspinmo
And where all this new electricity power going to come from? Wind, solar ? What happens when wind don’t blow or sun behind clouds? IMO nuclear the only option to electrify everything.
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