A Dose of Reality

I work for the largest electric utility in the USA (well, for 12 more weeks anyway) and if all of our customers suddenly had one or two electric vehicles to charge every day......we'd have more wire laying on the ground than we would in the air! We have very good infrastructure compared to other electric utilities, but that much added load would not be able to be met. Not by generation, maybe not by transmission and certainly not by distribution. We're spending billions of dollars, and everyone is working like mad to get upgrades made but it can't happen overnight. We suffer from supply chain issues just like every other industry. Right now, transformer manufacturing cannot keep up with demand because all utilities are upgrading just like we are, which exacerbates that problem. We aren't to the point of having to tell new customers we have no transformers to hook them up with, but that time could come! :(