IMO with removable batteries, EV's would be unstoppable. Think of gas powered equipment vs. battery powered equipment. Battery works with basically as much power (debatable, yes), and you can just throw more batteries at it if you're worried. Keep a few in the trunk. Plus no futzing around with oil changes and maintenance.
The hallmark of that thinking is probably construction and mechanic tools.
I've been in batt gear for a long time now... My original 9v Makita was barely functional... but I kept it around for drilling pilot holes in wood so I wouldn't have to change bits. Now, nearly every power tool you can think of I own as battery operated.
Now... I like em. And for the most part, they're good. But if I am screwing off a whole house in sheetrock, I will still be on a cord. I may mount the sheets with a battery...but the big job, the batts just ain't as good, and I don't care how many batteries you use.
Big tools are still corded too... I am a very long way away from a bat powered chop saw or contractor's table saw... even though they are out there.
BUT IN THIS CASE... The market governed demand. The products gained their chops on their own... and proved themselves on their own.
FORCING the product, not to mention the entire industry, is going to be a dire mistake,