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[Zythryn]

I believe a number of these assumptions are faulty.
First, I plan on spending no time filling up my EV as I will be plugging it in at night.
This is for convenience, yet it also has the side affect of using energy that is otherwise basically wasted. As many power plants continue to run overnight weather the power is needed or not.
Second, no one is going to flip a switch and have the entire transportation system running on electricity.
Some vehicles will be unlikely to ever make the switch (trucks hauling goods for example, or other long distance applications).
As for 3,000,000 Kwh to fill up a car, that is way off. My EV will have a 35Kwh capacity which will get it between a 100-150 mile range. Even if you double it, the stated requirement of 3 Million Kwh is still of by a factor of 40 Thousand or so.
I will see if I can find the study, but I believe there was an estimate that the current electrical infrastructure would be adequate if 20% of the cars on the road were EVs. Yes, we need improvements, but I don't think we could reach 20% in ten years time even if the big auto makers got on board.