
Will Electric Vehicles Break the Electric Grid?
The Flip Side
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How to Quantify the EV Electric Demand From the Bottom Up
In the US, for example, we know how many light duty vehicles are on the road. Simple math indicates that 100% conversion of light duty vehicles to all electric battery EVs would increase the overall US electric demand by nearly 30%. Right, and so on my team, we've attacked this question from the bottom up. We've tried to model the interplay of policy, behavior, technology, in a lot of detail. So we think there's some different scenarios for how this all could work,. But in the one that matches most closely with what you're doing, we think that the power demand for personal vehicles would increase by 18%. And in your view, it also includes light duty commercial
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