>>Welp, that settles it then. This is a conversation. Not a debate. We aren't writing a white paper to prove anything. I think you are wrong, you disagree. Big deal. >>If you did that overnight it sure would. I'd like to see automakers build 300 million electric cars in one day. It would be interesting to measure the rate at which the parasitic load grows relative to grid capacity and at what point over capacity does the parasitic load create so much difficulty for consumers that they force the government to take drastic action. Perhaps there is a parasitic load rate that can incentivize a grid upgrade in a way that is fundable. I just don't see it at all. >> I can buy all the batteries and equipment I need to keep my home and cars fully powered all year long for about $20,000 today. That includes days of cloudy weather and running my 5-ton central air in the summer. I won't need a fucking grid for shit. The only reason I don't do it is because the economics aren't there, yet. That's a huge constraint on power utilities that want to pinch the market. They have enough room to increase electricity about 25% here and then all hell will break loose with people cutting the cord on power just like they did with cable TV. Sure, multiply that by ALL of the homes in the country and the grid goes poof. You cannot accomodate that capacity growth with the current grid. A car consumers orders of magnitude more power than a home, it's not even comparable.