Re: With a "quantum computer"? With "cold fusion"? With "superstrings"?
Fleets like this tend to charge overnight when demand is lowest. Yes, as more EVs come online, that will increase nighttime demand. In most regions of the world, there should be plenty of buffer (if you live in a rural area next to a huge paper mill that runs 24x7, you could be an exception.)
Fleets can also help support the grid during brownouts by doing vehicle to grid (V2G) power transfers. Since this is an IT site, we tend to imagine the vehicles working like a big UPS. We pooh-pooh the idea based on some quick calculations of how many vehicles could run the grid for so many hours, etc.
In reality, the grid doesn't need to run off the vehicles, instead, the vehicles provide support for the grid (in a brownout situation, often the grid doesn't need real power as much as it needs reactive power, a garage full of trucks could be an amazing source of dispatchable reactive power).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
