Thanks. And yes, currently we can still burn fossil fuels to satisfy our hunger for energy but I was projecting into the future. My thinking goes like this: Let's define the amount of current electrical power used for non-automotive purposes as E0(2016). Currently there is only a negligible amount of electrical cars, so the amount of energy used for automotive purposes Ea(2016) will be comparatively close to 0. I think in a (maybe not so) distant future time point t where electrical cars have mass adoption (just think of a scenario where all cars on the street are electrical) we will in addition to non-automotive energy E0(t) need electrical power for automotive purposes Ea(t) for every car on the street. And Ea(t) >> Ea(2016) will be huge. Where will such a huge amount of electrical power come from if not from nuclear power plants with all their problems?
Other points to consider:
1. At some point in the future fossil fuels will run out - so no fossil fuel cars and no fossil fuel power plants any more. So E0(t) will also not come from fossil fuels anymore. As a sidenote on today's situation: I don't see a big difference for the environment whether a car burns the fossil fuel or a electrical car uses energy created by power plants that burn fossil fuels...
2. We have a growing earth population which will even increase the amount of energy consumed for non-automotive purposes in the future, so E0(t) > E0(2016).
3. Increased demand for electrical energy together with decreased amount of energy providers (fossil fuel power plants will be no more) will increase energy prices in the future.
