Several reasons:

1. Unlike the rest of the world, EVs were sold in the US as muscle cars for rich people (e.g. Tesla). Everywhere else they're cheap cars for urban commuters (e.g. BYD).

2. Republicans sabotaged every attempt from the Democrats to get EVs going on.

3. Space and demography: EVs do very well in small countries (e.g. Europe) or big countries with a concentrated population (e.g.Brasil, Nigeria). They do poorly in countries with big distances and a spread out population.

> EVs were sold in the US as muscle cars for rich people

Yeah, the Nissan Leaf was a high-torque monster. Though to describe the BMW i3 as a muscle car is... not the descriptor I would use.

EVs were not sold by every OEM as high-power drag-strip rock stars - that's just what it took to get Americans to pay attention

3. Sweden/Norway have a lot of EVs while distances are not small like Netherlands etc and are also less urban than the US.

3. Will change soon enough. Except in the land of the free, oil.