A simple observation: EV are a tech evolutionary need because we have peaked the possible evolution of current ICEs, we have tried some other ICEs in the past but with no success on scale so to evolve we need something else. Electrical motors are known to be effective (far more than ICE) and keep evolving so are a natural replacement candidate.

Than arrive the issue: electrical motors are fantastic compared, more power, constant torque, far wider rotation range, far less thermal issues, far lighter, cheaper, ... BUT we damn need electricity.

Electricity is the problem since it's a hard form of energy for us. Drill a hole to milk some oil is not simple as it sound, but it's also not that hard in tech terms, oil hold much energy in a compact volume and mass, we can move around and store for very long with very little issue. Electricity is far more complex.

Lithium tech just reach the level of BARE MINIMUM on-scale usability, since suffice from small pocket torch to cars, it does not last enough but still enough IF we will been able to recycle batteries (so far many experiments exists BUT none usable on scale because scale IS the issue) so it's promising. I do not know and I pretend to be arrogantly pretty sure NOBODY really know if such move will be successful or a disaster BUT we need to try to see.

The sore reality is that the sole way to try without much risks is the public. We need public research so to have a damn standard that allow interoperability, for instance is DAMN STUPID to being unable to couple a car's battery BMS to a p.v. MPPT simply because no such standard exists so far and competing vendors try to push their own, it's equally a pity we need to charge from p.v. (DC) to an AC inverter to another AC inverter in car to DC again because those who crafted actual tech need to mach different layers of crap from different vendors. It's a pity we do not have a build standard for batteries to allow a bit less complex recycling and so on. These are still SMALL POTATOES issues, but are costly issue due to the current development model. Bigger issues lie in uncertain about how much lithium we can harvest and when we will been able to recycle batteries effectively, IF we can.

The typical public research is: we try in a lab, we start experimenting with some public body, let's say a PUBLIC postal service cars, some army services etc, we correct issues emerged from such experiments and keep going experimenting for a while until we think tech is mature enough to try the big scale. We go to the public with some incentives crafted to allow a proper development like "the government subsidies buying an EV only in certain areas where the electricity grid it's ready, if the Citizen have a private parking place to recharge etc" something no private company can do. The again few iterations to correct new emerging issues and a wider cohort of public testers. The the first opening to commerce and so to anyone.

This was essentially the classic way of evolution even the USA have done WHEN they innovate for real, like pharma research by universities and NIH, like public funded labs from PARC to NASA.

Now with the WEF corporatocracy model such effective system got dismantled and research costs got offloaded to the people, pushing them with crappy advantages if they accept to pay or forcing them to pay.

Personally I have an EV and a classic European diesel, I like the EV but it's designed by some who do not drive them, do not have p.v., do not have any damn clue about cars. It's just a crapload of crapware on a classic car, with a nice visual.

We need to mandate FLOSS in cars, mandate NO proprietary services allowed to send OTA, mandate some standards like the aforementioned DC bi-directional coupling (who exists now, but just since few months [1]) and mandatory policies on batteries imposing an EV at the same price of the equivalent ICE. We need to KILL the PSP market for public charging: those who install charging stations also sell the energy directly paid with any classic payment means just like gas/diesel ones and so on.

[1] https://www.iso.org/fr/standard/77845.html