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There are cheaper electric vehicles, but they aren't really general-purpose analogs to ICE cars. Will work for some use cases, though.
There are electric motorcycles and scooters, but they won't provide protection from weather.
https://motoxtasy.com/top-best-street-legal-electric-motorcycles/
There are low-speed, street-legal vehicles known in the EU as Quadricycles and the US as NEVs, but you're talking about 25 mph, so not suitable for faster than low-speed roads.
There aren't cheaper EVs in the US.
Elsewhere, that's a totally different story.