Consider the Situation Where All 250,000,000 Gasoline-Powered Vehicles in the United

Essay

Consider the situation where all 250,000,000 gasoline-powered vehicles in the United States, each of which is driven an average of $20,000 \mathrm {~km}$ per year and requires an average of $0.55 \mathrm { MJ } / \mathrm { km }$ from the batteries, would be replaced with PEM fuel cell vehicles that use hydrogen produced by electrolysis using electricity generated by $1 \mathrm { GW } _ { \mathrm { e } }$ nuclear power plants (operating at a $70 \%$ capacity factor). How many new nuclear power plants would need to be constructed to accommodate this increase in electricity demand?