“276 million cars in USA
32x10**3 times 276x10**6 = 8,832x10**9 KW of energy needed per day in USA, or 8.8 Terawatts (Trillion watts) of new electrical power needed”
We can use your 276 million but even the optimists say we won’t reach that number for decades.
That would require about 2000 mwhrs per day.
Your nuclear plant rating is thermal, not electric.
1200 mw x .35 x 24 hours is about 10,000 mwhrs per day.
Falling asleep. You may want to check my math.
I met a guy that bought an old (1990??) Ford Ranger that was electric! He bought it for $500 and put in a new battery system.
I asked him, if he didn’t mind, how much that cost him.
$8,500. (He did the removal and installation himself).
So that is about the cost of having someone put a new gas engine in a vehicle.
He said he drives it back and forth to work, and every 3 days (70 miles) he recharges it overnight. At a cost of $4.
I haven’t done the math, but the idea of getting three days of commuting for $4 instead of about $14 every three days means he saves about $20 a week. (Okay - doing the math!)
$20 a week savings x 50 weeks is $1,000 savings a year.
In 9 years he’ll have paid off the cost of the vehicle. The old battery lasted 20 years, so he can drive it for “free” for 11 years - perhaps. (It will be 40 years old by then - with who-knows-what other problems).
I don’t know. It sounds like he got a good deal, had the enjoyment of working on it himself and getting it running, and can commute for under $8 a week!