They make plenty of EVs at that pricepoint in Europe (especially France and Romania edit: confused Renault Dacia in Romania and Citroen in Slovakia) and India l

They make plenty of EVs at that pricepoint in Europe (especially France and Romania edit: confused Renault Dacia in Romania and Citroen in Slovakia) and India like the Citroen e-C3 for $13k in India [0]. China isn't the only low cost BEV market. German automakers went to China, American automakers to Mexico, and French+Italian (Stellantis and Renault) automakers to India+Brazil+Romania. Most likely it's an attempted partnership by Stellantis to work with Mahindra on their Thar EV [1], the same way Toyota, Suzuki, and Maruti Suzuki all use the same EV platform globally. [0] - https://www.citroen.in/new-ec3 https://www.citroen.in/new-ec3 [1] - https://www.mahindraelectricautomobile.com/ https://www.mahindraelectricautomobile.com/