“And no thought at all to where the electricity to recharge the batteries will come from.”
Before 10AM and after 7PM we have LOTS of excess capacity.
All cars come with a Honda electric generator. You supply the gasoline.
Exactly right! The excess capacity from base-load generators can handle the night-time charging of several million E.V.s. After that, who knows — but, it’s absolutely not an issue in the near term. In fact, this extra off-peak demand will likely be a huge windfall for generating companies (the cost of base-load electricity is a fraction of peak-load generation costs). While it’s too much to hope that’ll result in cost-savings for consumers; it might, at least, slow down electricity-rate increases.
So we can only charge the cars in off-peak hours?
And the grid will handle 100 million cars all charging at once? Not a chance.