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

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Your usage of “kWh per month” makes my head hurt.

Simplifying the math.. 75 kWh x 4.5 charges x 276 million vehicles = 129,375,000 kW = 129,375 MW.

Total utility-scale electrical generation capacity is 1,117,475 MW per the EIA with another 27,724 MW in small-scale solar generation.

In other words, we would need a ~10% increase to add an additional 130,000 MW generating capacity. Realistically you need more than that, because I assume the EIA data is peak capacity.

To put it into perspective, we added 260,000 MW of natural gas plus another 170,000 MW in renewable generating capacity between 2000 and 2020. So the generating capacity we added in the past 20 years is 3x more than what would be required by your math. Which means it’s definitely possible.

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