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When electric vehicles become a greater percentage of transportation, power generation capacity will be stretched. There will probably be a need to go back to more coal power. Of course power companies could possibly do this if they buy enough “Carbon Credits” from environmentalists like Al Gore who has the carbon footprint of a sasquach, but hey, he did invent the internet.

I'm thinking about getting an EV in a year or two. Assuming I'll keep driving about 200 miles per week like I do now, and assuming I'll mostly charge it from home (not counting the rare times I'll use it for travel since my wife and I plan to keep a gas car too), I'll probably still buy less power from the grid than I did a couple of years ago. That's even after I converted my natural gas appliances to electric this year, meaning you'd think I'd need more power than ever.

How? Because I put solar power onto my house with my own money and had a system custom made for mine and my wife's power consumptions. Also because my new electric appliances are efficient with power consumption (i.e. my A/C and gas heater were replaced with a variable speed heat pump). The Dim greenies don't want to take it onto themselves to use their own resources and do the homework about their own situation to figure out how best to manage their own affairs according to their ideals. They always think the solution is to force the rest of us to figure out how to bring about their false utopia regardless of the consequences.