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Battery packs have a lot of innovation in them, its not just a load of batteries lashed together. There's monitoring systems, cooling, balancing. And squeezing more efficiency out of them is very important. So standardisation of EV battery packs is about as likely as having standardised swappable petrol engines.
No, EVs have far fewer fires. e.g: https://evse.com.au/blog/electric-vehicle-fires/

But it might be fair to say that when there _is_ an EV fire, its a bit harder to deal with