You really think it’s at all practical to build out everywhere a network of station

It works with propane tanks.

one ton batteries to fit every age of every vehicle in every location no matter how rural and heavy automated equipment to maneuver them?

That’s where standardization comes in. All vehicles would use the same cells, or maybe a couple sizes depending on use case. No reason they have to way a ton either a car could have multiple cells sized for a person to be able to handle themselves. This would also allow you to “top up” if they can get the cells to drain sequentially.

You want to hold battery technology stagnant to support this? You want to lose the efficiency and reliability benefits of structural batteries.

As long as new technology connects to the old connections then they can change whatever they want inside the cells. That’s how batteries have been for pretty much the entire history of batteries. And no I don’t want to lose anything. I was merely asking a question.

The reality is current batteries already last longer than the first owner keeps a vehicle and newer ones easily exceed lifespan of ice vehicles.

I’d very much like to know what the actual numbers are for “how long the first owner keeps a vehicle” and the “lifespan of ice vehicles”. I’ve had my car for 15 years and I’m the first owner. My dad had a truck that’s coming up on 40 and is still kicking. EVs haven’t even been around long enough to prove that