

To be a pedant, the ten hottest years on record have all been within the past decade but each of the past ten years hasn’t been the hottest on record. E.g. 2021 was (slightly) cooler than 2020 and so wasn’t a record year (but was still hotter than any year pre-2014).
The Dacia Spring might be the closest to a no frills EV I’m aware of outside of China