[mbirth]

This was very obvious when car manufacturers first started producing EVs in Germany. There's a law here that limits the "fleet CO2 output", i.e. the typical CO2 output of every car on offer is measured and the mean value is calculated and has to be lower than what's specified in the law.

During the dawn of EVs in Germany, manufacturers built some EVs but barely advertised them and also their prices were way above of their fully specced petrol versions. (Meanwhile bragging in documentaries about how efficiently and cheap they were able to produce said EVs.) You definitely got the feeling they didn't want to sell them. OTOH they usually published a new SUV at the same time - because they sold like hot cakes.