What is the point of stating the obvious? Is the plan to stay on gasoline for longer? Burning fuels is bad for the environment and that alone is enough reason to stop with it. (If the mining isn't environmentally friendly, that too can be solved.)

If humanity had something even close to a brain, it would just build the charging infrastructure into the road such that you would never have to think about charging in the first place. This would make the cars much lighter and thus more energy efficient. A battery with a range of 50km would already be ridiculously overpowered, which means that we could have switched to EVs a few decades ago. This also works wonders for law enforcement, because a criminal literally wouldn't be able to escape because of range anxiety problems (you would just turn off the charging grid along the path of the criminal).

In short, there is no real problem, because if there is a real problem the government would just allocate 5,000 scientists/engineers/technicians on the problem like in the Manhattan Project.

Designing a modular unit that could be placed under or over roads doesn't even require a fucking PhD; it just requires the government to mandate every car maker to support that technology and a financial structure to incentivize people to build such invisible chargers. Additionally, a design could probably be made that would sit in the space of where battery packs are in old EV designs such that they can be cheaply upgraded to work with such more advanced infrastructure.