And don’t forget, the load on an already and over stressed Electrical infrastructure will not be able to handle the demand if everybody suddenly starts running these.
The costs to the taxpayers will be beyond feasible to upgrade the nations electrical grid to accommodate it. The current costs for electrical conductors and components to make the necessary upgrades will bankrupt most local governments. Not to mention the huge tax increases required to feed this bureaucratic beast.
You know, there is so much left out of these equations. It makes me wonder if more than 5% of the population really understands the consequences of all these new initiatives and products.
I work as an industrial electrician and my boss falls for this stuff all the time. When I remind him of the load on the infrastructure as it exists today he kind of goes blank. He should be able to look ahead and see this but he doesn't. He sees "big oil" as the culprits and that's as far as it goes.
There is plenty of load available off peak (after 5pm). I don’t think you’d have many of these charging during work hours. Most would be afterwards.