The price difference between foreign and Chinese producers is because Chinese producers get more subsidies than foreign ones, even though both get support from the Chinese government. Also, Chinese companies are more vertically integrated, meaning they handle more parts of the production process themselves, which lets them buy things at lower prices than foreign companies.
For example, BYD not only makes cars but also owns lithium mines, builds its own batteries, develops its own e-motors, owns large ocean carriers for export, and even owns a vehicle insurance company.
This sounds like a model we should be emulating and adopting, but instead we are fighting to keep our existing model, that is less efficient and less effective at making affordable EVe available to the public, all because the Chinese model doesn't align with our ideology. I say, fuck ideology. We should do what works, even if it doesn't necessarily pass some ideological purity test.