Strangely, the first paragraph "the EV myth" has nothing to do with EV's, but is spot-on:

    a doom loop of consumer preference: Drivers saw the 
    vehicles around them getting bigger, so they wanted bigger
    cars to make themselves feel safer. Automakers argued 
    that this was proof that people wanted only big cars, 
    so they cut small models and made existing vehicles bigger,

But it was just profit driven by the pricing power to get bigger margins from lack of competition at the low end.

That happened for lack of political will: when gas first went to $4-5/gallon in the U.S., politicians should have promised to keep prices there or higher with taxes, to pay incentives for people to buy cars that are smaller, fuel-efficient, or carbon-free.

Now we're stuck with 10+ years of SUV-sized vehicles.