Originally Posted by
CrimsonEclipse
Most of the "experts" said that electric cars would never work or are decades off.
I am no expert, but I can do the math.
In the US, we burn about 140 Billion gallons of gas per year (
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=23&t=10 note that is per day)
A gallon of gas has about the equivalent of 36 kwh of electricity.
https://www.convertunits.com/from/kW...otive+gasoline
If we replace ALL gasoline with electricity, it would be over 5 Trillion kwh.
Current US annual needs for electricity are a bit under 4 trillion kwh.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...on-since-1975/
So we would only need to increase our electrical production by about 125%.
While possible, I doubt it will happen in any of our lifetimes.