Reader letter: Ontario can handle e-vehicle electricity demand

Published Feb 17, 2024 • Last updated 10 hours ago • 1 minute read

An electric vehicle charging station is shown at the Devonshire Mall in Windsor on Nov. 19, 2021. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star

re: Reader letter: How much new electricity needed for e-vehicles? (Feb. 6)

Don Briggs asks how much electricity is needed for e-vehicles?

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I did the math based on my car (Tesla Model 3), using an average of 20,000 kilometres driven per year. If all vehicles were replaced with similar vehicles of similar efficiency, the total demand for electricity would increase by about 10 per cent.

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Of course, it will take at least 15 years for all vehicles to switch over, so it works out to an increase in demand of less than one per cent per year, so there is lots of time to plan for it. Ontario increased electricity supply by seven per cent annually in the 1970s. The increase could easily be done with wind, solar, and conservation.

One analyst even estimated that half the electricity required to drive EVs would come from less electricity required to operate pumpjacks, pipelines, oil refineries, and filling stations.

Electricity supply will not be a problem for the transition to EV’s.

Glen Estill
Lion’s Head

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