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.