If your price tolerance is $5k and you are as interested in cars as you are in hammers, you're not the customer they are chasing right now. In the US folks are

If your price tolerance is $5k and you are as interested in cars as you are in hammers, you're not the customer they are chasing right now. In the US folks are spending $48,000(!) on average on a new car. I'm not saying that's financially sound, but that's the price point where they need to make EVs compelling right now. I do believe EV tech will rapidly drive the price for cars down and the reliability of those cars up. So someday I think a used EV will be your no-fuss $5k purchase. We're just not there yet.