Electric cars–and now a dual-cab pickup truck–are truly neat. But they beg the question: Where is all the extra electricity to charge them over and over going to come from? The Electric Power Research Institute doesn’t seem to be worried, and indeed is working with General Motors to advance the idea. But I still wonder. Peak energy usage for air conditioning in the summer already causes problems for Texas utilities. Add millions of electrics cars and what happens then?
Via Dustbury.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I would say that for big countries electric car is a long-term project. Not only for the reason you cite, but also because of the cost of the infrastructure to be built, due to the limited mileage of that car. Small countries (I could mention one) are a better target for a first experiment.
Another issue is that by moving the energy generation to the power centers you just centralize the source of pollution.
I would say that at the moment nuclear power looks like the only viable direction for expanding the production without too much pollution.
It does, indeed, and the usual political suspects, the same ones who champion the electric car, are opposed to nuclear power. Perhaps they want a wind-generator propeller on the back of each one?