If you blinked, you missed it. The dawning of a new automotive age, that is.

Accelerated by pain at the pump, EVs appear to have reached a tipping point.

(A native of England, veteran journalist Matthew Diebel has worked at NBC News, Time, USA Today and News Corp., among other organizations. Having spent much of his childhood next to one of the world's fastest bodies of water, he is particularly interested in tidal energy.)

When journalists and historians look back at the gut-wrenching year 2022 — the Ukr…