You must have missed the part about poor people from rural regions. They don't have 20K, they barely have 2K, they are not eligible for credit/lease and you obviously have never been to countryside if you are suggesting a Citroën Ami with a straight face.

I don't think that you're here in good faith and your tone is poor at best. You put words in my mouth that I did not say.

But, can you explain why "I don't see this ever being reality with EVs" ? Not just "not now" but "not ever". Wow.

If vehicle X is the same price or cheaper than vehicle Y when new, then given ten years and the resulting resale price drop, it sells used for the same price or cheaper than vehicle Y, not so?

I don't see the confounding factors as permanent, merely due to EVs being fairly new on the market. But now the new ones are plentiful, and the same price or cheaper as the ICE equivalent across market segments. So the rest is only a matter of time.

Change does not happen overnight. No-one is expecting it to. Arguing as if it's otherwise is straw-manning.