The challenge with full electrification is that the grid's really not ready - and electrical companies, as public utilities, don't have the staff or mindset to fix that.

I'm in New England, on the Eversource electrical grid. I live in a cohousing community.

We had a plan to roof over most of our parking areas with 'solar' carports, then add about a dozen open-access level two chargers. Turns out Eversource does not have capacity to let us connect. They weren't willing to say definitively what needed to be upgraded (off our property and on) until we ponied up about $10K for them to to a study. It's been more than three months, and, from the correspondence, it doesn't look as though their engineers have even looked at it.

I'm sure this is being repeated all across the country.

As for us, we're starting to look at microgrids, central-to-us battery walls and fewer level two chargers (probably not open to the public). But we have resources. What happens in less advantaged areas? Is this yet another "build Interstates through Black neighborhoods"?

Planning to read the book - hope there are some (potential) answers in there.