To move all passenger car traffic in the US to EVs we need to come up with an additional 0.73 trillion kWh hours of electricity. To put this in perspective we currently produce about 4.18 trillion kWh of electricity annually in the US, so we are looking at roughly a 17% increase… another 12% or so increase in the total required electricity generation [for commercial vehicles].

So together we are looking at about a 30% increase in electricity demand to move all of our cars and trucks away from fossil fuels. Not impossible at all, but also not easy. Now please keep in mind that, though that today our electricity production is still over 50% from fossil fuels.

So that starts to give us a better handle of the true scale of the issue of getting away from emissions.

Albert Wenger, “Electricity and the Climate Crisis: Moving to EVs“