>Take a bog standard sedan, put a 200-300 mile range battery in it, sell it for the battery cost more than the ICE version, scrap the ICE line before the government forces you to, job done.

I'm surprised no auto maker has yet to my knowledge a) done the above and b) advertise this fact. I'm envisioning a two-page print ad, showing two identical cars side by side, with a headline challenging the reader to answer "WHICH ONE IS ELECTRIC?"