“I don’t think there are enough EV’s on the road for all these increases.”
Agree, by my estimate, if all gasoline cars were replaced with EVs, consumption would go up by 20% for residences, probably 10 to 15% overall - still a lot, but not catastrophic. What will be catastrophic is if all fossil fuels were replaced by electricity - then my guess is that demand would double or triple, and that is what the Globalists are planning to do, and is a HUGE FACTOR regarding their attempts to get control of Russia, China, and now India.
You got me to thinking about my own system: the choice to go solar, convert 2 natural gas appliances to electric, do other energy improvements to the home, and do most of our driving in an EV. Usually I look just at the changes in how much I pull from the grid compared to before I did the energy project. Your post made me look at the #'s for changes total kWh consumption by going all-electric (regardless of how much of that comes from the grid). Note: this is for life in Alabama (read: don't have to fight bitter winters), and for driving 15K miles per year in the EV with home charged miles (not counting miles charged away from home where I don't track the #'s so keenly).
From May 2020 to April 2021: 16,356 kWh.
From May 2023 to April 2024: 21,140 kWh . An increase of about 4,800 (400 kWh per month).
Notes: May 2020 to April 2021 was the last 12 months before I started solar. I had 2 natural gas appliances and no EV's. The kWh is the total the power company says I pulled from the grid those months.
May 2023 to April 2024's numbers come from my inverters recording how many kWh were demanded from my electrical panels (regardless of how much of that came from solar panels, batteries, or the grid). So this is how much extra I'd pull from the grid without solar but being all electric at home and almost all electric in driving.
This also includes, though, energy improvements like now having a variable speed heat pump to cool and warm my home (heat strips for the few times in the winter it gets too cold for the heat pump). I also now have a hybrid water heater (in place of the gas water heater) that usually runs at 380W (unless I have company staying over and need it to run with the common heat strips demanding 4kW). So having an EV and no gas appliances demand more power, and it'd be even more power if I didn't offset some of that with energy improvements I made when converting my gas home furnace and gas water heater to electric (plus some insulation and being more diligent with new gaskets around doors and such).