"In short, Detroit is drifting further and further from the starter car, while factories in China are specializing in it. Just don’t expect the latter to solve for the former anytime soon."
https://archive.ph/xYi2U
There is a bit of union blaming in the article, but it is an overall good article. Basically import taxes, tariffs, and anti-Chinese political sentiment prevent us from having sub $20k EV car.
This one line is heavily assuming that the above poster lives in a urban area, meanwhile they could be someone like me who lives out in essentially a rural area. In my particular case I live in one of the many 'rural cities' (and one that's doing "better" than a grand majority of them) the populate the US outside of your big cities.
Honestly it feels that rural areas just keep being a huge glaring blind spot for most everyone here.