[LogicDesigner]

“Are you deliberately ignoring the herd of elephants in that room? Electricity for transportation should carry the appropriate taxes to support our highways. It is the wealthier segment that drives the toys that are skipping out on this.”

We pay around 42¢ per gallon in taxes, which does not explain the difference.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=10&t=10

“In addition, the electric grid is having to be upgraded at tremendous cost to permit this excess.”

No it isn't. The vast, vast majority of electric car charging happens at night when there is a couple hundred gigawatts of unused grid capacity. All electric cars come with a “delayed charging” setting so that you can program it to not start charging until the middle of the night. “Time-of-use” electricity plans are becoming more common these days that offer discounted rates at night because of all the unused capacity at that time.

[nascarnation]

That seems reasonable.

I used to work at a large manufacturing plant here in Indiana. We were one of the top 4 users when it came to sucking juice. Hot afternoons in the summer we were always on call from the utility to taper usage as needed.

[editor-surveyor]

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>>”No it isn’t. The vast, vast majority of electric car charging happens at night when there is a couple hundred gigawatts of unused grid capacity” <<

Not so at all!

The vast majority is done during the work day, between when employees arrive and depart.

Power companies, counties, states, all provide card-lok charging stations for electric cars. Few people are willing to pay the $4000 installation cost for a home charger.