[klabb3]

Manufacturers may just keep the battery size and market the improved range instead? Smaller cars in urban and suburban environments have always had lots of benefits, but since many of them are collective in nature, it has largely fallen on tragedy of the commons, and we got larger cars with larger hoods instead.

[Qwertious]

They might, but so far they don't. Manufacturers are largely switching to LFP (although to be fair they tend to offer a long-range option which ships NMC instead) and the main benefit of LFP is cost. The range of electric cars on the market is largely capped at 500KM/300miles. They could offer more, but they don't.

[DennisP]

Why not both? For a two-car family, having a good road-tripper and a light sporty car can work out pretty nicely.