“In 2014, Brian Grunkemeyer was a Microsoft principal software engineer with a passion for fighting climate change. That year he bought a Tesla Model S and drove it from his home in Redmond, Wash. to San Jose, Calif.
‘On a road trip like that, you have a lot of time to think deeply about EV charging,’ Grunkemeyer said.
His realization? That if projections were correct, electric car charging was going to require a huge amount of power.”