@anon,
I have 5.4 kW of PV on my roof that cost me around $30K. You couldn't even fit 5.4kW of PV onto a Fisker Karma. Therefore, this really doesn't account for the price increase except as an excuse for people who really don't understand what it costs to make something.
On the subject of people who really don't understand what it costs to make something: Clearly, the overwhelming majority of people in the world have no clue how much it costs to make things. We have been to insulated from the costs of things through the accomplishments of the industrial engineering field and their optimization of mass-production. Making a $15K automobile requires a machine (factory) that costs over $1B to build. In order to pay for this $1Bmachine, one is going to have to sell hundreds of thousands of $15K automobiles. It is going to be pretty much impossible for a small startup such as Fisker, Tesla, Coda, Commuter Cars, BYD, Phoenix, Wheego, Aptera, Think, etc to pull together this much money from the beginning. Therefore, despite how badly we want a cheap electric car, someone's going to have to pony up over $1B just to get started. I don't like that Tesla (the only successful US automotive startup in over 50 years) has to start with a high priced supercar and work down but at least that model has the potential to work. All the other startups are making great promises of $20k, $30k, or $50K cars but the numbers just don't add up so I can't see how there can be success, no matter how badly we may want it.
We also complain about Nissan and GM's pricing but, even with a lot of the factory investment already made, they are going to be eating a lot of the costs of their EVs for a long time. They are subsidizing the cars a lot more than the government is - at least for the next few years. In the long run, they will have built up and paid off the infrastructure so EVs will become profitable but this could take 5 - 10 years, assuming sales are good.
I'd like those who believe that EVs are real to do a little less whining about prices and a little more digging deeply into their pockets to do what they really feel is right. Their payback, like the auto companies, will come in a decade or so too but theirs will be because we'll have a society that isn't a slave to the dwindling supplies of oil and all of the other evils associated with oil.

There is something freakishly wrong with the woman's hand. I'm frightened to even look again.

I know! Look close and you'll find two of them... both equally freaky.

Apparently they'll be selling these cars in very mild climates...

@BW,
Why do you want to slow it down?
Oh never mind, I see now (you had me there for a minute); I guess your truck broke down and you need to pick up a new engine and other junk from the junkyard so you need your sedan to have enough torque to handle the job of keeping your ICE working :-)