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

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According to this Reuters Report, we don't anticipate needing additional power generation to support EV charging until after 2030,but huge investments in generation are going to be necessary. If 80% of the cars on the road now were EV, it would increase overall electricity consumption by 10-15%.

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I dealt with this in my napkin math post earlier ITT. I think @80% adoption we might be looking at more like a 24% increase in total demand but it would have far less impact on peak demand which is the most salient issue. Our overall demand has stayed rather flat for the last 20 years and we added an extra average 4% per year from 1960 to 2000 so aren't really looking at adding power production at an unprecedented level so it can be done without much fanfare. The most important thing on the local level is socially engineering people to spread out their charging through the night and not all plugin (or turn on) charging when the hordes arrive home at ~5:30 PM local.