Who pays for all the new infrastructure needed and how long before that's ready? Three guesses. That's before we get onto public safety and maintenance costs on a large scale. Perhaps it's viable a decade into the future but the main points I feel are being missed. We do not have the wherewith-all to flick any switch and provide what is needed for EVs on a large scale should that happen over the next 2 to 5 years. It will take massive reinvestment, political change and massive amounts paid out ultimately by consumers. Then there's the current petro-chemical industries and associated business and job losses which for hi-tech replacement industries may never satisfy the job creation (compensation) needed. None of this has been thought out and it will take sorting at a central governmental level and supported by both legislative changes and via huge government subsidisation paid for from taxes.
Why do people suppose that Ford is actively chasing the major market in solid state hybrid technology? That, at least superficially, seems to be the only truly sustainable and sensible answer until the UK (and other countries) are ready for a switch to electric only. Toyota/Lexus are current world leaders in hybrid technology and I'd expect them to come up with a new generation of solid state hybrids to replace current, aged technology (however good they are at it). It's an interesting subject to debate but there are good reasons why EVs haven't succeeded in market domination nor are they proved to be any more carbon footprint friendly in whole life costs, let alone in total recyclability. Indeed, disposal of current batteries would create more pollution than current recycling of metal alloys.