...the above is sobering viewing... transport uses nearly 3x the currently available energy from electricity... Even accounting for higher efficiency from EVs there's a massive shortfall in generating capacity..... ...Numbers don't add up.... ...
Great graphs, and the numbers add up fine
as there isn't going to be some overnight switch to electric... although I think the new car sales transition to EV is going to be a lot faster than the car industry thought (just judging by aquaintances' interest in EV for new car purchases or leases). BUT new cars use a small proportion of the overall transport energy budget (vs lorries, buses, everyone's existing cars etc etc). Folks with on-street parking are not going to be transitioning to EV so much. And the overall desire to phase out gas CH is going to be a much bigger issue than transport...
PS: I wonder if the gas network will end up transitioning to biogas or even hyrdrogen? Is the latter even feasible?
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-pipelines
