“NO ONE advocating electric cars ever wants to speak to [electricity production]”
I address it frequently.
First off, scale: we’re talking the equivalent of 10-30 hundred-watt light bulbs lit overnight.
There’s lots of off-peak unused capacity already in the system which producers are begging customers to use. That will cover a LOT of EVs for starters.
Home electricity use is dropping. The requirement to end use of incandescents, along with other high-efficiency changes, means home power use is dropping 50-90%. Producers would like to keep selling electricity, with their production capacity not diminishing.
Electricity can be produced from many different sources.
There’s a reason Musk started Solar City and rolled it into Tesla (ya think?). Price of a “solar roof” system capable of mostly powering your car is about the price of the car (not cheap up front, but gives you nearly complete off-grid driving capability).
As demand for gasoline per se diminishes, that industry will seek new customers - say, local electricity generation.
Fuel cell tech is improving, increasingly making use of hydrocarbon fuels.
Several major meta-manufacturers are looking for customers for “safe & cheap” compact nuclear power systems.
Methinks between all of those, we can sort out powering EVs. Not like the need will be overnight.
And remember: wasn’t all that long ago that gas stations were few & far between, and naysayers complained “there’s no gas where you’re going!”
Funny thing capitalism: given a demand, a supply will arise.
You can’t store that unused capacity?