It was boring 20 years ago when electric meant golf cart performance. Tesla changed this. Older people (who conceivably wrote the article and who design cars and who run car companies that aren't Tesla) haven't caught up and still think of modern electric cars the same way they did when they were 16. Basic entry-level Ubers now beat Corvettes, we live in a different era where EVs are already the preferred rich person car and not a weird hippie thing.