Accelerate the World's Transition to Sustainable Energy - to fight Anthropogenic Climate Change, page-438

Wilson tells Recharge that when there are multiple BEVs trying to charge on a single residential street, problems will begin to arise.
“There’s lots of room for [BEVs], but if we scale that solution up and now every one of your neighbours has one of those cars, and you start to look at the cost and the practicalities of running the electrical system, and you want to run the electrical system on renewable energy that fluctuates very substantially second to second — when you stand back and look at that whole system deployed at scale, new issues and problems come in.

And eventually in Europe, there just isn't enough places to put wind turbines and solar farms to give all that energy for transport. So now we have to look at importing large amounts [of energy].”

“Today, 85% of our [energy] systems are based on molecules — natural gas and oil, with 15% electricity,” he explains. “We’re starting to consider how we change that, but if we talk about the practicality of doubling or tripling our electrical system to suddenly go all-electric, that’s not fully realistic.