There are cheaper electric vehicles, but they aren’t really car analogs.

There are electric motorcycles and scooters, but they won’t provide protection from weather.

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There are low-speed, street-legal vehicles known in the EU as Quadricycles and the US as an NEV, but you’re talking about 25 mph, so not suitable for faster than low-speed roads.