Electric motors are extremely efficient over a wide speed range, whereas combustion engines aren't very efficient even in their relatively narrow optimal range and the arrangement needed to translate that power into motion further reduces overall efficiency.
While replacing the energy 1:1 would entail roughly doubling US electrical generation you actually want to replace the function and that's maybe 20-25% increase. It's not a trifle but it's very do-able. Especially if you time-shift car charging so that it's happening when humans are asleep and there's slack in the network.
You charge your phone while you sleep right? If you're used to filling up a car at a gas station it can feel weird but you can charge a car while you sleep too.
Its a massive change in how things operate in the US - significant amount of money reinvested into the grid and not solvable only through behavioral change. Thats one of a quiver of things that need to be done.
That's a problem and behaviour with poor long term consequences.
Bit like Columbia being a net cocaine exporter.
> I have no idea
There are annual IEA reports on global energy demand and supply by means and country.
Those looking ahead to sustainable energy are improving technology and infrastructure to better utilize the great fusion reactor in the sky.
Certainly the US could use a plan for charging infrastructure and grid improvements- it's currently lagging both the EU and China there.
eg: Electric vehicle charging - https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/electric-...
( Just the current trends in public charging stations, not trends in supply )
>Stop wanting to actually make things and have a well rounded economy!!!
Dragging up sequestered carbon in the billions upon billions of tonnes and changing the insulation factor of the atmosphere _is_ bad and will lead to no good if not unchecked and somewhat reversed - that's just physics.
Ergo - that should _stop_ and other things should be made that sidestep the issue.
