Electric vehicles are simply a get rich industry. Maybe 50 years from now, consumer electric vehicles will start being better for the environment. Right now, the technology has just become mature enough to sell some terrible ones, so there is a rush to make and sell them before the fad wears off.

The main goal is to always make you buy, yet another, hugely expensive vehicle. If they keep making terrible cars, without any real advancements, but instead selling you on a new vehicle for each tiny slow-rolled advancement, they can maximize selling the most amount of products.

This is the absolute worst for the environment. Each time you buy another vehicle, your CO2 cost to the planet, explodes. That vehicle was made the shittiest way in some state, then shipped across the country, sat in dozens of car lots, while being rotated across the country for at least several years.

The best thing you can do for the environment, is to use your current vehicle as long as possible, even if the damn thing runs on coal. If you buy/trade up, even to a more efficient one, you've already negated any environmental benefit and instead went massively in CO2 impact debt.