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for the next three years anyhow, its pretty much baked into the regulatory process that the growth in electrical power will come mostly from solar and wind. a lot of coal plants will be transferred over to natural gas.

I think this is a rather stupid way to go.

To get the big numbers required for additional cars they’d need more portable nuclear power plants and to drop the prices of these plants they’d need to shift them over to thorium from uranium and to lftr designs from light water reactor designs.

My point is that consumption isn't diminishing, it's GROWING.

CURRENTLY:

"Electricity consumption by 107 million U.S. households in 2001 totaled 1,140 billion kWh. The most significant end uses were central air-conditioning and refrigerators, each of which accounted for about 14 percent of the U.S. total." But that's only houses. Wikipedia tells us the US uses 4,104,900,000,000 kWh per year. We can divide by 365 to get kWh per day and by 1000 to get megaWatt-hours per day. That is 11,246,301 mWh per day. That's a lot!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070503142008AAYDVBe

Still the QUESTION:

If ( 4,104,900,000,000 kWh per year. ) is the annual U.S consumption.... WHAT is the percent of electricity increase to the grid needed to meet increased electric needs of charging 80 million additional vehicles 1 to 2 times per day?

ckilmer,

I just found this which sheds MORE light on the subject of USAGE and effect.

How Much CO₂ Do Electric Cars Produce?

http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Electric%20Cars%20and%20CO2.html