The easy, reliable and cheap (aka practical) alternative would probably be a small EV like this one: https://electrifynews.com/news/auto/chinas-new-10000-ev-by

The easy, reliable and cheap (aka practical) alternative would probably be a small EV like this one: https://electrifynews.com/news/auto/chinas-new-10000-ev-byd-seagull/ https://electrifynews.com/news/auto/chinas-new-10000-ev-byd-... But there is a long list of social, economic and political forces determined to prevent this from ever happening in the USA.