And of course they will figure out a way to keep them dry underneath the car and easy to remove during winter temps below 20 degrees.as for electrics, we're aiming all wrong.
the reason gas works logistically, is because everybody but diesels use the same standardized gas, with the same gas tank fill port, and a fill up takes a couple mins.
standardize easily replaceable smaller modular batteries.
when you're low on power you pull into a refill/charging station, attendant pulls the empty and partially empty batteries from the battery drawer on your car's underside, takes a power reading to see how much juice is left, credits you for the juice remaining, loads up your battery drawer with fully charged modular batteries, you pay the power difference between what you gave up and the refills you got, and go on your way.
you never own the batteries. cars can have different size battery drawers, that can handle more or less modular batteries.
station recharges the modular batteries you gave up, and those go into another car when fully charged by the station.
current gas station/convenience marts could handle gas and battery exchange until gas cars are extinct, at which point they become just exchange stations/convenience marts.
pulling the empty modular batteries and replacing with fully charged ones should take no longer than filling your tank.
as battery tech improves, just keep the standardized modular connections and dimensions, and everything should still work fine. just as a 9V alkaline works fine in the same smoke detector you had an old school 9V non alkaline in.
i suppose the station itself buys their initial battery stock, and works off the trade ins from there out.
batteries will someday go bad.
exchange stations will need to take that into account when setting exchange prices.
And most certainly the station would be equipped with a windmill or roof top solar panels to recharge these small light modular batteries
inside the warehouse attached to the station. Too bad that it probably would be impossible to make these stations self-service.