Ok, I may come across as being anti EV, but I'm not completely, they have their place - and what is not to love about max torque at 0 rpm. And I believe the place is a daily drive to work in the city.
Racing is simply not viable, not with current tech. That battery change gave up 90 sec on an ICE pit stop. Plus when you work them hard the batteries really get drained very quickly. Real life reports from utes towing give a horrible range, it's simply not viable having to charge every couple of hundred kms.
Plus people actually believe the highly politicised line that they are green. An EV charging off the grid has the same per km carbon footprint as a Kia Picanto, and the Kia doesn't have the 7 ton carbon debt the EV does from the manufacturing of the batteries. Plus the Kia won't need to spend $30 000 on a 15 year old car replacing the batteries, essentially writing it off. That Kia will likely have another 5-10 years of driving after this point.
My view is we are doing ev's wrong. A small commuter with smaller batteries is where it should be, a range of 150 - 200km for this type of car is enough. Why waste resources on a battery pack that can go 500km when this type of car almost never does that much driving.
Plug in hybrid is probably an even better option. A battery range of 50 - 80 km is heaps for this type of car, realistically how often is a daily commuter going to travel more than this, and you can save 6 tons of carbon by not producing a massive battery pack. We simply don't have the rare minerals to produce all the batteries the electric worshippers say we are going to need. Smaller batteries in small cars for the cities is what we need, spreading the limited batteries across more cars.