In reply to my own insightful and interesting post:

At the very least, a sub $5,000 car would destroy the US gas automobile market overnight, crash the power grid in 3 months, and make the current road system in major cites undriveable due to saturation, and China would eat our economic lunch.

Imagine a repeat of the Covid years when Long Beach had 100+ ships in harbor unable to be offloaded full of all the cripe Americans need.

Only now full of cars, not TP.

(We can’t all live like Peach Tree City golf cart enthusiasts).