The European Union claims to have found direct evidence of payments from the Chinese Government to Chinese electric vehicle (EV) OEMs, this will have impacted prices on vehicles imported into the bloc and so the EU is mulling the unenviable choice of whether or not to impose retroactive tariffs. It claims to have found evidence including: Direct transfer of funds and potential direct transfers of liabilities and funds Government revenue “foregone or not collected” to benefit OEMs Government supplies of goods or services “for less than adequate remuneration” Imposing tariffs will mean higher prices for consumers, slowing Europe’s EV transition marginally as ticket prices on imported Chinese EVs increase to accommodate punitive tariffs from the EU, we would say up…