It is very doubtful a full transition to electric cars is in the cards (several OEM's will not even touch them), and generating that much more electricity is much more inefficient than ICE's.  There may be some fear-mongering with the Peak Oil crowd, but I worked for a German Global Energy company (Not GE), for five years and the Old Timers there are fully on board with the problems that will occur of living in a post peak world, as well as many executives in the auto industry (where I work now) are. It may not be in your or my lifetime, but those issues are coming. Electric vehicles will never solve the oil dependent agricultural business that feeds us. Automotive and Energy is responsible for 35% percent of our GDP, not something you should be taking so lightly.