Today was much more typical:

10,000 MW variance in demand between a Wednesday and a Thursday? I guess it could be as simple as "It rained quite a bit in Houston on Thursday afternoon".

Expanding current battery tech production? We gotta think about that (source, REE = rare earth elements):

Whatever company or government manages to mine or capture (orbitally) a sizeable rare Earth metals asteroid could generate several trillions of dollars. Ideally, we could do it in tandem with having it serve as a space elevator anchor, but I digress.

I haven't looked into graphene/graphite capacitor-battery tech lately, but I guess it's still not economical enough for scalable production compared to lithium/REE stuff.

Call me a Texan, but I'm still uncomfortable with overly-capitalistic solutions to EV or wide-scale battery production. We've traded minor improvements in affordability for an almost incalculable amount of risk.

How 'bout this? Fuck car ownership altogether. We need to hasten a future of self-driving, Uber-like, and possibly partitioned cars (for carpooling) designed to meet capacity at rush hour, while expanding public transport, and restructuring cities to be denser. Even a feasibility study on implementing some of that would be great. Imagine if Andrew Yang's "Forward Party" (or anyone, for that matter) could come up with just a rough proposal to implement something concrete related to that instead of useless platitudes like "risk the imagination of a new possibility" and "common sense consensus". But nope, everything's a fucking cash grab.

I also don't think we'll get self-driving cars without linking either a small handful of companies or the government to both infrastructure and automobile construction. Maybe they all work together, ideally.

These are hard problems.