Every Germany manufacturer has EV models, and there are a quite a manufacturers so that means a there lot of German EV's to choose from. That's because their government has put in strong tax incentives towards EV's. And most Germans seem to prefer to buy German cars and that goes for EV's, so you see of lot of German EV's in Germany.
But ... all the German EV's I saw were their existing ICE car bodies retrofitted with batteries and an electric motor. Right down to still having the exhaust hump going down the centre of the car. Even to a pleb like me it was obvious this layout sucked compared to say a something that was built from the ground up to be an EV, like a Tesla. Move outside of Germany, and German EV's are rare - true EV's like Tesla's dominate.
I guess the cost of re-doing the car body design must be huge. But until they do it I'd avoid them. And I'd say if they don't make the investment, they are doomed to suffer the fate of the dinosaurs.
I dont see a problem even if they are retrofitting cars. German cars are still higher build quality than Tesla. But if german auto industry is going to have trouble upgrading batteries in 10 years, that is a concern.
German EVs are not rare in the rest of europe either
