City EV Efforts "Could" Threaten The Grid -- September 11, 2019

From "energynews":

Wow, how many times has this been said on the blog. No one has thought this [EV] story through.

Forget the energy source: coal, natural gas, wind, solar. That's not the problem. We have more energy than we could ever use.

The problem: transmission.

Transmission:

• electric lines: high voltage, long distance; and "last mile"
• transformers: lots and lots and lots of them

Fact: it only takes a few (2?) EVs in any typical 14-house neighborhood to require re-vamping the entire neighborhood grid (transformers, transmission lines).

As far back as 2014, even the comic artists "got it":