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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz
MIT has estimated that the US power grid is capable of supporting 150 million EVs. That's over half the current operational vehicles. We'd need to upgrade some to go all the way, for certain. But a lot of that is infrastructure changes that need to happen anyway.
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I have read (even before this discussion) that US electric grid cannot (or not ready to) support projected EV growth. I googled on "us electric grid and EV" and have found yes/no. Some are not "mainstream" sites and partisan (e.g. oilprice.com says "no"), but we do have WaPo and Reuters articles saying "no".
A 2019 .gov analysis says
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/fi...%20Nov2019.pdf
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The overall conclusion the analysis in this paper demonstrates is that, based on historical growth rates, sufficient energy generation and generation capacity is expected to be available to support a growing EV fleet as it evolves over time, even with high EV market growth. The analysis also points out that growth in incremental energy generation associated with the future EV market scenarios considered here may reverse the trend over the last 10 years of near-zero growth
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There is a section also on challenges
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... it acknowledges several potential challenges at the distribution level
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