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Heroic arithmetic for an electric age

Like everyone, you’ve probably read somewhere in the press that electric cars are coming to displace internal combustion engines in the not-too-distant future. So let us try to answer an absurd question: how many more nuclear reactors would be needed today if all passenger vehicles in France were to become electric ? In trying to answer that absurd question, we might actually learn a few things of interest.