Actually what is really needed is for any large outfit (govmnt included) that has any sort of mineral fuel burning engines, (notice I never use the ______ist, ____crat, catch word of "fossil fuel") to be forced now to get rid of them. This means all the diesel generating plants everywhere, and all airport machinery like in alaska etc. Just imagine all nuke plants with battery back up and no diesel gensets. This needs to be, and should be done as a grand experiment to prove to anyone that thinks having power sources that do not burn a fuel, will not work. And as far as living out too far for battery's to work, I think there are plans for that as well.IMHO, I seriously doubt there will be a discontinuance of IC engine power. That ability to grow fuel stocks from organic materials is all too simple, refilling a tractor tank with a biodiesel to return to work almost instantaneously instead of swapping a massive battery pack or awaiting a rapid charge for an hour that may not last long enough to complete a task.
All too many live Out where a battery fed machine is worthless for any real sense of reality and expense beyond means where a smaller IC will provide far longer far more secure.
iIRC Brazil has their own bio fuels refiners and nearly most cars run strictly on Alcohol fuels where trucks on biodiesel.
Yeah I'm trying to figure out how they will charge the batterys for those radar outposts in Alaska, that I saw on a tv show the other night. Or the Alaska fishing boats, and factory's. How to charge all those heavy battery's? Too dark for solar, maybe a few wind storms would help them?