Numbers of these giant cars have increased tenfold on the streets of England’s cities in the past two decades, now comprising 30% of urban vehicles.
Some of that is just energy density. Batteries aren't as energy-dense as gasoline.
I was kind of grouchy about the size of EVs too
even if you aren't talking something technically classified as an SUV, CUVs or even sedans/hatchbacks are getting quite large. but I kinda rethought that when I was complaining about the lack of a spare tire in a post a while back. Like, it was the EVs and hybrid models that got the spare tire squeezed out first. I'm sure that manufacturers are hunting for all the spare space they can in the vehicles. I'm pretty resigned to that just being something that's probably going to happen.
It's not as if they have some huge glut of unused space somewhere in the EV to stick more battery. Plus, the batteries are heavy, so they gotta stay fairly low in the vehicle to keep the center of gravity low and avoid rollovers; that's even more constraint.