How are your distribution lines?
How loaded are your substations and transformers?
What size are your conductors?
I work in electrical distribution, this is total BS right now.
We can’t even keep up with heavy contractor presence and tons of OT.
Also, our force is old, and youth don’t find linework appealing.
That being said, I think I'd like to replace one of my two gas cars with an EV and use the EV for most of our normal commuting (on days we use only 1 car) and use the gas car on trips or on days my wife and I have to run different errands in two different cars.
But then, I have a 10kW solar system on my house and it produces over half of the power I consume. There are about 55% days that I bring in more power than I consume or store in my battery storage -- it'd be nice if I could put that power to use on those days for things like charging an EV. And my solar inverter has a feature that I'm not using that'll power a circuit (or circuit panel) only when I have excess power (i.e. if the home solar batteries are full or at whatever setting I configure it to, say 90% full). So I could plug an EV into a special outlet that's powered intermittently and probably charge my EV for "free" for at least half of the 200-ish miles per week I drive my car -- with every now and then having to charge it with constant power (read: power I sometimes pull from the grid) if I go a few days in a row without sun.
But that works only for me and the few of us who have a large solar system on our houses. If most people get an EV without solar it would be yuge demand on the grid.