Yes, but you very rarely use anywhere near the full power of a car engine, and many, if not most, people's daily mileage is such that they won't need to charge every night.
This is a good point, I have had jobs where the vehicle needed filling every day, but other than use for work, more normal to fill up once a week and even then not a full tank.
In fact this is the whole thing against electric cars, at the moment in the main you buy the car but rent the batteries, so you have a fixed amount you pay for batteries and it does not matter if you use them or not, so for the milkman who lives across the road with the electric Kango that's OK, van used every day, so battery rental costs are a small proportion of total cost.
However for me, who fills his Kango up every three weeks, that rental cost is silly, so at the moment people who only use the car once or twice a week, it would be uneconomic to use electric due to battery rental costs, so we don't really know what power the average street would require.
I have a bus pass, however at the moment the buses don't start early enough or end late enough to use, I looked at the bus to go to hospital, and I would need to go the night before my appointment and stop over night. So no real option have to use a car, however in the future that may change, when working in Hong Kong I would not have dreamed of buying a car, it was so much faster using the MTR and buses and taxi's.
So may be by time we have all electric cars, we will also have public transport? I have worked for firms who ran pick-up buses so you did not need to drive car all the way to work, what I think is a problem is the speed of change. Once I buy a car I am going to use it. So once we have public transport it will take about 40 years for people not to buy cars.
As a bus pass user the bus does have advantages, I would not have used it if not free, but once I started I realised catching a bus to town means I arrive at the town centre, not some car park with some steep hill left to climb, (I do live in Wales) so it takes me around 30 minutes round trip town and back with enough time for a couple of shops, into local city takes longer, around 2 hours round trip, but again I arrive and depart from city centre.
Where it all fails, is where there is no direct route, my house to mothers, in car 15 minutes, on bike 12 minutes however return takes an hour, by bus an hour because I have to catch two buses or a bus and train, and I have 1/2 hour wait some where between the two vehicles. It would not take that much to arrange hand shaking so the two buses stop at some point along the parallel route and allow passengers to transfer, once this is done then we will start to use the buses and trains more. Once this happens many will not need cars, so it's catch 21, until people use buses the bus is too expensive, and since the bus is so expensive people do not use buses.
If we really want to reduce CO² then we need to subsidise public transport to get people to use it. The electric car is not saving CO² it is just a way to make more money.
As to if CO² levels follow globule warming or if globule warming is caused by CO² seems to be the big question? From all I read CO² follows globule warming and globule warming is caused by the sun, man has no control over globule warming it is just natural, by 2040 likely we will realise that, and all this CO² emissions rubbish will be history.
