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> BEVs are growing in popularity slower than many previous forecasts

I've spent a fair amount of time looking for such a forecast that was actually more aggressive than the real popularity.

Your own link only shows a rather big increase in EV sales in the US, not a decrease, and it doesn't show any missed forecasts.

There was definitely a flurry of bad mass media articles about how the traditional car makers were scaling back their plans. But the facts in these articles were either extremely stilted and biased, or the facts in the articles directly contradicted the headlines.

For whatever reason, the car majors decided they wanted to tamp down on EVs in the media, and editors came through in spades with deceptive articles.