My thought was instead of having gas stations, there would be battery replacement stations for EVs.
In that scenario the station would have to have a surplus of batteries much like the propane tank swap model......you don’t own the battery you just pay a fee for charge and use.
My take the reason Musk pushed the swappable battery scenario back in the day was to insure people that batteries could be swapped out if maintenance issues popped up. If a battery swap operation was viable, Tesla would already have a swap shop in operation in the LA area...