I get that EVs in general haven't been historically popular cars, but stating that Nissan Leaf, literally the best selling EV of all time, has only sold in "mod

I get that EVs in general haven't been historically popular cars, but stating that Nissan Leaf, literally the best selling EV of all time, has only sold in "moderate numbers", is a bit of a joke. Even in annual sales, it's only recently been surpassed by the Model S. Furthermore, while it does do relatively close to half the range of a Model S (and the gp did state "half"), given Tesla's advances in range, along with Nissan's own advances in battery longevity, I don't think they're skimping on cheap tech for low range. One could go a lot lower and still have a very usable city car. All that said, the general point was: would it sell. The Leaf is extremely popular in Europe where (in my highly subjective opinion) car buying is slightly more rational/practical: the US market seems to favour mass-for-the-sake-of-it (clearly evident even comparing the range of cars available on the market in Europe vs the US), so I don't think smaller would do well there.