Converting to 100% electric road vehicles
Is it possible for all traffic to be powered by electricity, and how much energy would that require?
I ’m sorry I missed it, but in 2015 energy blogger
Euan Mearns published numerical estimates of what 100% conversion of the UK’s cars to electric power would require from the nation’s electricity generating system. I had myself done a ‘back-ofthe-envelope’ calculation of this kind for the US.
It was based on the number of registered cars, the average mileage driven
