Little $4,500 Electric Car Is the Hottest Thing in China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuling_Hongguang_Mini_EV it has a range of 120km, with the bigger battery it can do 170km. They already shipped 120000 cars, within a year. In the EU they plan to sell these for 10000 Euro.

So in Germany where they give up to 9.000 euros in grants for an ev, the price will be?

1.000 euros X-)

Why do prices always double when a car like this is sold in the EU or USA? Is it a combination of shipping costs and modifications to meet standards or is it mainly that middlemen just raise the price, or all those or something else?

I've been watching this youtube channel a bit recently: https://www.youtube.com/c/Wheelsboy/videos

and all I can say is wow.. China's automotive industry is seemingly miles ahead of where I thought.

Yeah, and it feel like the world's automakers are asleep. (Except for Tesla!)

They don't really talk about the safety profile. It's the size of a FourTwo but doesn't seem to have the cage.