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The math is not that hard it’s 6th grade level. The average person drives 13500 miles per YEAR. That’s only 36.5 miles per day this is also inline with what the NHTSA puts as the avg daily driving distance. A full sized Tesla model S goes 4 miles for every one kWh from the plug this is well documented with thousands of data points Tesla cars report back their battery status and usage statistics to the mothership of Tesla servers via their over air links. So 36.5/4= 9.13 kWh per day in electric us to cover the average daily drive.

That’s slightly more than one hour use of a electric cloths dryer or an hour and half of running a 5 ton AC unit. Hardly something to get worked up over.

Put another way two 450 watt commercial sized solar panels on a roof could put out that much power in a 12 hour day. Read that again two plywood 8x4 foot sized commercial solar panels could make 10kWh in a typical mid latitude solar day. It’s like having a petrol station in the roof.

People seem to think EVs will be charged from zero to full every night. How many people drive 300+ miles per day? The answer is a tiny fraction of a percentage. UBER drivers , delivery types like door dash, Taxi drivers.

The average person drives under 40 miles per day that’s well documented by the NHTSA and energy.gov as well as census.gov rural types drive more but the vast majority of people live in the urban area’s. This is why the population average driving distance is under 40 miles urban area’s have density. No one really cares what the few outliers drive at hundreds of miles per day they are outliers the bulk of the miles in this country are light duty vehicles in urban areas with individual trip distances of under 6 miles and daily totals under 40 regardless what a few high mileage rural types think the data is clear.

Look at energy.gov actual data not perception from personal bias. Pay particular attention to the blue bar,blue pie chart. Nearly ALL of that energy and trips are under ten miles and every miles of that can be electric. 10kWh a day in extra energy use is not going to crash anything. The variance in seasonal energy use per day in Texas is five times that. You go from ten kWh per day in winter to 80+ in summer just running the dual zone AC units. For the outliers who drive hundreds of miles per day fast AC or DC chargers driven off battery packs that trickle charge during the day is the way to go. Audi,VW and BMW all have charging stations for industrial and commercial use based on exactly that technology using second life cells.pulled from the last generation of EV to serve as the load leveling packs.

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10318

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10661

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10566

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10569

“In 2020, there were approximately 57.23 million people living in rural areas in the United States, compared to about 272.91 million people living in urban areas.”