Europe faces major problems with it's electrical power grid.
This is a big reason Europe has gravitated to very efficient turbo diesel power for their automobiles and have pretty much avoided electric cars.
Europe simply does not enough power generation to power automobiles and we are headed in the same direction.
Think of the disaster that would have occurred in California if their 1990’s pie in the sky green mandate to convert 30% of their cars to full electric power would have actually happened.
California's power grid almost collapsed in the days Grey -out Davis days of rolling brownouts and blackouts even without the load demands from charging electric cars.
Add a million electric plus electric cars to the mix and a lot of people would have been without lights and air-conditioning
You are absolutely right. In fact the new EPA CO2 powerplant mandates that are being shoved down our throats having nothing to do with efficient power generation, but require an absolute reduction in emissions and therefore in power generated. There is simply no way to achieve what they require (30% below 2005 levels by 2030 and it starts to kick in within a year or two) without producing less power.
That means the morons who we subsidize to buy their electric cars are going to cost us even more in higher electricity prices as we are forced to used sources that cost 2-3 times as much as conventional.
That's because they were getting enronned.