I don't think ICE will ever die. The only way to kill it is to make battery charge times the same as refuel times and just saying that sounds stupid dangerous, so the best they could do would be to replace the batteries with a robot. The space to do that would be massive though, because, currently and as he stated, the batteries are massive. That also requires the manufacturers to agree to a standard battery design so they could be interchangeable.
Something he left off from environment, ICE can be easily recycled or remanufactured. Last I looked, you can't get EV batteries recycled or remanufactured.
If we could develop a battery that in essence is nothing more than a capacitor, and has the same charge capacity as a battery, we could do it. It would have to be far more dense than even the supercapacitors we have today are, tho.
Batteries as we currently know them will always have problems with heat and life. It's how physics work. Even capacitors as we know them have a (long but) finite life.
I think they were or are looking into that kind of EV for sports car racing.
Yes - capacitors have increased capacity by leaps the last few years.
Didn't know you could get the batteries recycled good to know.
Tesla was planning to do stations that would swap the battery bank out to get people on the road faster. Looks like a mobile option has been thrown around.
https://electrek.co/2017/09/15/tesla-new-battery-swap-technology-to-deploy-trailer/
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