"a disaster" is very vague and could still be true if EV sales were growing faster than expected as it would still be better if they were higher. The articles

"a disaster" is very vague and could still be true if EV sales were growing faster than expected as it would still be better if they were higher. The articles discussed often specifically claimed the sales were dropping (at least in the headline, usually admitting that's not true in the text) which would give a much less wishy-washy headline.