So you think there will be two cars charging at night per house instead of 1?
As long as people aren’t also using their oven and running the drier I don’t see that it changes much for required transmission and generation capacity, but there would be more energy used at night than we currently see.
The more you can use, generally the more you will. And people really discount the drain of say, an extended family who all have to charge vehicles for work the next day.
Meh, I’m not seeing a capacity problem. Either their panel can handle the load or it can’t and then they have to upgrade panel to higher amperage, and if the whole street upgrades their panels then the utility might have a problem.
I think the main problem is going to be that we are going to need a tonne more energy to replace fossil fuels and the daily demand curve with the diurnal pattern is going to flatten right out as people charge all night.
As long as people aren’t also using their oven and running the drier I don’t see that it changes much for required transmission and generation capacity, but there would be more energy used at night than we currently see.