Can the U.S. Grid Handle EVs?

Here’s a video in which the presenter busts the myth that the U.S. grid can’t handle the mass proliferation of electric vehicles.  He explains this in terms of the growth of data centers and the money to be made of selling all that power.  I’m sure there is great deal of truth here.

My explanation, which I’ve been providing to readers long before AI and the explosion of data centers, is that, because of the extremely high efficiency of the charging batteries and discharging them through electric motors (close to 90%), vs. the low efficiency of internal combustion engines (~25%), we could replace every gas- and diesel-powered car and light-duty truck in the United States with EVs and cause a total increase of load on the grid of about 14%.  Close to nothing.