This seems similar to what I had posted elsewhere about the Koenigsegg Jesko making the new 0 to 400 to 0 kph record all with traditional ICE.
I think people are easily influenced by "ICE is good for this, and EV is good for that, and you need this much power and that much torque and blah blah blah." It's better to just leave it to the real engineers to make them work and then have them explain it to us how they did it.