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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

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