We have been conditioned for our entire lives to desire traits that are needed for large engined combustion cars, and it's become a defining trait of the look of premium vehicles.
Look at how car companies use a common design language for the grill/radiator/wings of their cars, and this has all come from the fundamental design requirement to cool and house the engine/gearbox. As such these functional requirements have been front and centre of the design language for 100 years.
Now we are being asked to value something different, and a big open grill with a long bonnet is just not needed to house the important mechanisms, in-fact it is totally contrary to the requirements of an EV.
Is it any wonder that we might find these new designs a bit unwieldy or ugly? It will change with time, but this is such a fundamental shift in technology that companies are trying to either shoe-horn into their old design philosophy or even doing something completely different to excentuate that these cars are indeed something totally different.
