re: where will we get the juice for all these EVs?

How are you going to power heavy equipment? trains? ships? buses? trucks? aircraft? industrial generators?

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Radio on?
Windshield wipers?
Bluetooth?
Navigation?
Dashboard display?

All that PLUS A/C...

You'll have a line of fricking paperweights littering the highway.

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You’re either severely overestimating the electrical load of those items or severely underestimating the capacity of an EV’s battery.

The average home in Louisiana uses 1,254 kWh each month. That means an 80 kWh EV battery could power an entire home in Louisiana for nearly 2 days. You think a car A/C is going to drain it in a couple of hours?

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Radio on? Maybe 20 watts
Windshield wipers? Negligible
Bluetooth? Laughably negligible
Navigation? Negligible
Dashboard display? Negligible

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Basically think about how long your ICE car will run all that stuff off its little battery with the engine off, and then multiply by roughly 100.

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All that PLUS A/C...

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This is the only major power draw, dwarfing all the others you mentioned combined by about 100 times.

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You'll have a line of fricking paperweights littering the highway.

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Not quite. A Tesla, for example, requires about 2kw to run the AC. That means it will lose maybe 5-10 miles of range per hour running the AC constantly. For comparison, an ICE might burn 1/4 to 1/2 gallon of fuel per hour idling with the AC on (obviously depends on engine). That means it will lose a similar 5-10 miles of range per hour.