Shh... I'll tell you a secret. For years and years a lot of the electric vehicles in lots of brands, weren't meant to be sold. The public were even advised by the car dealers not to buy them, and they were made so unattractive as possible.

In part because the carmakers were probably unsure about its long term performance with a totally new technology, but the main reason was other.

It just happens that the environmental emissions of a car maker fleet was calculated as the average of emissions from all their models in the current market.

Those tiny, squared EV that looked like toys were built with the only purpose to decrease the brand average value. Thus they could have models contaminating more in the upper categories. (Plus painting the brand in green for PR purposes).

All of this changed after Tesla started to show its claws and to be taken seriously.