It's the nature of EVs, good for short occasional use but not so good for long haul continuous use.
This is why it irks me a little that EV tech including batteries are being punted as the Nirvana of fixing the obvious unsustainable global energy problem, which is actually the source also of the climate problem, though mainstream science seems yet to accept that, it's the physical truth.
I just recently had to explain to some unbelievers why technically batteries will never fly practical passenger aircraft, so it's hydrogen or nothing for the future of aerospace, assuming we can rescue that, given it's demise since the seventies, again due to the energy problem, the only solution is domestic and community based solar generated hydrogen.
Your article gives some pretty strong reasoning also from a practical point of view. Imagine the range anxiety on an aircraft, if they were looking at the remaining range counting down at twice the claimed ideal rate, and they couldn't even jettison the takeoff weight of the fuel to enable gliding to an emergency landing, it's all or nothing on a battery powered vehicle. When the when the battery gives up, it drops out of the sky, simples, every time.
The power to weight ratio of even the best theoretical value of practical lithium compared with practical hydrogen is about 132x out, in favor of hydrogen.
Its absolute insanity of Musk etc to be arguing that will be even slightly acceptable never mind marketable.
My own expectation is that we will find many ways to convert ICE engined cars and trucks, and actually even EVs (Via fuel cells) to hydrogen, garages will make a killing of that for a while, and we'll never look twice at obvious gas guzzlers in the future, we won't care if we know that the input fuel comes from energy which actually cools by being put to use, and the fuel when burned outputs only things beneficial to life.
I hope actually one day to be able to drive an old hydrogen converted V16 Bugatti. Not all the time, just now and then, if I feel like driving, which isn't so often now (I walk, skate, use e-bikes, buses. I even have a trailer to take trash to my local tip, about 6 miles away, by ebike :)
I used to have a caravan trailer and 4wd, so know what it's like trailering, was fun, I could do 800 miles with one stop for fuel.
Now I have an empty parking space at home until that old H2 Converted Bugatti comes along :))
Btw, you guys werent really doing 80+ with a trailer, right? ;-)