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Yes, in ten years ICE will be as common as EV’s are now.
Gas statins will begin to disappear, replace by charging stations, only much larger areas will be necessary.

Entire industries will start to go bankrupt, STP, Lucas Oil, and any others that are dependent on ICE cars to sell their products, because they will be as obsolete as buggy whips in the 1920’s.

AutoZone, O’Reillys, Advance, Pep Boys, and others will all either have to merge or go bankrupt, since EV’s don’t have as many parts, and won’t require oil changes every 3000 miles.

Cars will last longer as batteries recharge life will be extended as fast as science can manage. Electric motors will too. And when a motor or battery does need to be replaced, it will be a 1 hour or less swap job, and you are ready to go.

Entire services not yet thought of will spring up like vaping stores and nail salons.

People have no idea how big a disruption there will be.

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I agree with your post. Disruption has a way of sneaking up on you. I'm old enough to remember when it was a shocking sight to see somebody with a mobile cell phone, able to make and receive phone calls from anywhere. It seemed like magic. Ten years later, everybody had them and it was no big deal.

I also remember logging onto the Internet for the first time around 1993 or so on a 2800 baud modem and being blown away by the fact that I could get things like current sports scores, weather observations in real time and communicate with people all over the world on bulletin boards. Ten years later, everybody had an internet connection and it was no big deal anymore.

I think we are at that stage with EVs. Ten years from now, we could very well have EVs outnumbering internal combustion cars and that will be the tipping point you speak of.

People laugh at EVs today because of their limited range, their long charging times, etc. But they forget how primitive the first cell phone were and how horrendous the internet was in the early days when you had those 2800 baud rate connections that took three minutes to load a JPEG. In fact, I remember when it was impolite to post images on Free Republic because it would take so long to download the threads!

Lastly I am not in favor of any government mandates with regard to EVs. Let the free market decide. It looks like entrepreneurs like Elon Musk are leading the way and that's the way it should be.