Electric Vehicle Charging Insanity
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I don't know where you are getting your numbers, but the electric grid has way more capacity than that. Tesla's superchargers are consuming 10x more power than my home charger and they have 12-20 of them in a parking lot. That's like 200 level 2 home chargers in one spot.
At my house, the Air Conditioning uses 10KW and the Tesla charger uses 10KW. I can run both at the same time, sure, but normally run AC during day and Tesla at night.
However, the power grid gets overloaded on hot days by everyone using AC... I expect the same will happen when everyone is charging their EV at night. So upgrades are needed, but maybe 20-30% more capacity, not 100% or 200% more.