“There is not enough electrical power in the United States to power the cars if everyone converts to EVs.”
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48
Look at the graph U.S. electricity generation by energy source. Anything within and above the sinusoid curve for natural gas is potentially available for car recharging.
Let’s us underestimate at say 50,000 megawatts for eight hours, or 50,000,000khw for eight hours.
That’s somewhere around ~4kwh (~16 miles per day) for about 100 million cars.
It comes fairly close. It’s going to be decades to replace the gasoline car fleet. There’s time to build more natural gas power plants.
I did the calculations for a local gas station pumping 200,000 gallons of gas and 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel per month. It would take a dedicated 30-40 MWs to replace that fossil fuel with electricity. And that’s one single station.
There’s no way our current grid can takes the peaks of lots of electric vehicles charging without MAJOR upgrades.
Yes, but what about the infrastructure to deliver all of that juice?