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power supply won't be that big of an issue. With the exception of nuke plants, most power plants run well below capacity from 10pm-6am usually at a financial loss for those hours. So if demand increased while people sleep and charge their cars, the entire electric grid becomes more efficient. Electric utilities would see quicker ROI and the overall effect on rates could likely be neglible in respect to the influence exerted on the rates by the introduction of EVs. The plants are always burning coal/gas to stay online, so would a plant rather burn say a million pounds of coal to produce 1000 Mwhrs, or 1.5 million pounds to produce 2500 mwhrs?
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