EVs generally come with options the maker would otherwise charge many thousands for, but of course these have a much lower cost to the maker. So if someone did offer a bare-bones EV it would very likely be only marginally cheaper than a heavily specified one. As you might suspect at the low end of the market, neither the MG (an adapted petrol car) nor the BYD (designated as a ground-up EV design but with front-drive and other compromises) shows just how good an EV can be. To see that, you need to move into the $60,000 and $70,000 bracket,...