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Originally Posted by Zythryn

Sorry, I jumped a bit ahead of myself.
First, again, you aren't going to flip a switch and have everyone running electric cars. The first few models of pure electrics will likely be bought by people who almost never take a trip longer than the range of the car, or families that will have one electric and one car capable of longer trips.
Two, and this is the part I skipped on, EVs will start to be bought by people concerned by the amount and type of energy we use. As such, I am guessing they will also be people that conserve in other ways.
I do believe there are challenges and that our grid will need expansion, but I don't believe it is as impossible as you are making it sound.

I'm not making it sound impossible. I'm simply pointing out the difference in time it will take to accomplish a change to electric transportation using solely private resources vs public resources. Either will get us there eventually. As Craig pointed out on EV research, and I agreed on supporting infrastructure, we may get there faster with public resources allocated to the task.