Posting this again as, apparently, I need to.
People have no concept of what power flow requirements are needed to fill up multiple batteries at the rate necessary to equal the driving range and fill time of a typical gas powered car.
15 gallons of gas is equivalent to about half (.495) a MWH. That means to fill an equivalent battery in 15 minutes (a very long fill up time at best) you’d need to pump in energy at a rate of 2 MW per car.
For a small 8 pump filling station that’s a capacity of 16 MW. We’d need that much electrical transmission capacity, or more, going to nearly every filling station in the country.
The country’s entire electrical distribution system would need to be replaced from the ground up with one capable of orders of magnitude more power generation and transmission.
Replaced.
It is flat out not possible to upgrade the current system to meet that need.
Not going to happen.
Yes. The power lines alone would require unimaginable amounts of aluminum along with steel, carbon and glass fiber, and aluminum production needs monstrous amounts of energy. Towers and poles would be needed, also requiring extreme amounts of aluminum and wood. The revenues or even debts needed for such a project would be unobtainable.