The new Oregon Trail: Pioneering the electric car - Opinions from The Oregonian Columnists, Editorials, Letters, Blogs, Cartoons and More - OregonLive.com: "It's true that electric cars would add to the demand for electric power, but the impact would be mitigated if the cars were recharged at home stations at night. A 2006 study for the U.S. Department of Energy found that if all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil-based fuels to electricity, the available, overnight generating capacity could generate most of the power needed to recharge hybrid or fully electric vehicles.
The power council heard a presentation from Dr. Michael Kinter-Meyer, a scientist at the Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory in Richland, Wash. Kinter-Meyer said Battelle's research suggests that between 43 percent and 73 percent of all cars and light trucks in the nation today could be replaced by plug-in hybrid vehicles without adding new power plants or transmission lines, provided much of the recharging took place at night, during low-demand periods for electric power."
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