@ActionRetro May or may not suit the price range (and not sure if used is an option in your general area), but last year my wife and I got a new Kona EV. We'd been saving for a while. The reviews all said it was an excellent car and they were right.
I don't miss anything about gas cars. Not the noise or the weak performance or control feel or paying for gas to burn and destroy the planet. I love my EV, period.
(And yes, generally the software works very well.)