Who’s going to have the available power to charge an electric car’s battery in 1 minute?
By my back of the envelope math a full up nuke plant could do about 300 cars at once.
Indeed, the thin power lines leading to houses will glow so brightly you won’t need street lights.
Seriously, the grid would have to be restructured at the street level, and we would have to put many new power plants online to cover the tremendous power spike at sundown when the commuters get home.
“Who’s going to have the available power to charge an electric car’s battery in 1 minute?”
Just like with the idea of flying cars, one isn’t a problem. Its when you have hundreds trying to charge at the same time the problems start.
Nothing is 100% efficient. Enough waste heat to cook an elephant?