Driving China’s Cheapest EV ($4,800) in the U.S.

This will never be available to buy in the US, and if it was it would be three times the price after tariffs and importers take their cut. There is a company in Germany that is preparing to import these (or another very similar super-cheap EV from China) but they will be absurdly inflated in price: they will buy them for €3,000 at the factory in China and sell them for €14,000 on the European market. You can't have cheap EVs in Europe or the US, else the auto industry will crash (faster than it already is).