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

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How will we fill this shortfall??

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By using some of our unused capacity. Per one of your links, we have more than a billion kilowatts of generating capacity. Times 8,760 hours in a year equals 8.8 trillion kWh of possible production. We generate and use less than half that, per your research. Per your math, we would have to increase production from 4 trillion to 5 trillion kWh. Even if there are technical issues with simply using more of our untapped capacity, a 25% increase in production seems easily attainable over the course of a couple decades.

The real issue is peak demand, which EVs can actually help with by restricting home charging to off-peak and actually reducing grid demand by powering the home from the EVs pack during typical peak times.