Adding to the original question -- like others, I just don't think EVs now (maybe ever?) make much sense for the long distance driving environment that a TDI excels at. Optimizing an EV for long range and extreme performance seems foolish to me as well since it is wasteful of scarce battery construction resources and requires longer charging times to replenish. I think the whole industry has been aiming for the wrong thing all the time.... Keep your eye on the 99.9999% use case of most drivers, which is trips of 1 to 10 miles, and build lightweight short range EV's with that use in mind, and then provide plenty of well-maintained and accessible charging locations, including in places where those who live in apartments and park on the curb can use them easily. Every parking meter and street sign and fire hydrant in a city or suburb should have an EV charging plug coming out of it if EV usage is really intended to work. Then, take all the resources that you were going to use to make the battery that's capable of pushing a Rivian or Cybertruck through the air for 300+ miles, and instead build FOUR or more normal size, lightweight 100-mile-range vehicles that cost a fraction as much and serve the real-world needs of Civic and Prius drivers in urban commutes rather than someone wanting to tow their Airstream across the country on battery power.
And then keep a reasonable option out there of liquid-fueled vehicles that are appropriate for those of us who put on the long distance miles or unusual usage scenarios. My commute is 125 miles each way, over 2 mountain passes each direction, sometimes in 110F heat, sometimes in -35F cold. Sometimes there's a wreck in the winter and you're stuck waiting in a traffic jam for 6 hours while they clear it. I will never trust an EV for this kind of use. An older TDI rules for this and probably will go down in history as the all time best solution to this problem before or since.
BUT just before Christmas our only gasoline-powered car (I do have a couple gasser pickups), a very well maintained 1999 Honda Accord that we have used for short trips in town and is the daily office commuter of my SO (1.5 miles each way), got crushed by a tree in a windstorm. So as we try to figure out how to replace it, I can see the logic of a used short range EV like a LEAF, i3, e-Golf, etc.
In other words, I envision a good role for one as one tool in an automotive toolbox for a person or family that has various transportation needs and can have multiple vehicles that are each optimized for different scenarios -- long distance vs local use.
But as a replacement for a TDI, I don't get it when people do this. The things a TDI is best at, an EV is worst at, and vice versa. As a replacement for a Prius or Civic owned by a city or suburb driver, coupled with 100 times the charging opportunities that currently exist, I do see it.