They are on par or better than their Chinese counterparts but they are a hard sell being 30-50% more expensive.

Broadly speaking they're not _as far away_ from Chinese EVs as we all make it here to be. However, the problem is that the stockholders of all these companies expect 500% YoY growth which isn't sustainable. Not to mention the cost of a car has grown significantly while all German cars have degraded substantially in quality. For example, you can expect Porsche to sell FOREVER the number of cars they manage to sell in the 00s and 10s:

    2000: ~54,600 (happy)
    2007: ~98,600 (happy)
    2019: ~280,800
    2025: 280,000 (CRISIS!!!)