aotw...... Unless a motor seizes, it's likely the battery-controller will reduce available power , thus a gradual descent is initiated.... the methods are well established in the model-world and it would appear the technology is easily and practicably scalable.
no doubt there has been a lot of spin-off
from the wind-power industry, also Solar and other generation forms, where power transfer and storage are required......see also, the latest "supercapacitor development using Graphene.
Henry is right!....the authorities will sit, fingers in ears, head in rectal orifice, until there are hundreds....they have a track-record of stable-door bolting.
hand gliding, Flexwing microlighting, parascending...and in other fields...the Go-ped (thousands imported until finally legislation caught up. ) , Segway.
The only case I recollect, where they were pro-active, was electrically-propelled, low power vehicles......I would not suggest that there was any lobbying by Sir Clive Sinclair, before attempting to foist his mobile bidet, aka C5 onto the public.
