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Subsidies to manufacturers in Germany are much smaller than both: subsidies to consumers in Germany, and subsidies to manufacturers in China.

So, there are different subsidy types with different subsidy rates which all impact the market. Higher rates usually have a higher impact, but type of subsidy can also change what kind of an impact they have. Any comparison quickly becomes complex.

I posted some numbers in an other post [0], but the numbers are not exact.

Subsidy is also one of many factors. Of course you also need capable people and manufacturing capabilities which China has. So, subsidy alone is not enough, but if needed capabilities exist, subsidy at high rates can help tip the scales.

First, the subsidies to consumers for electric vehicles in Germany apply to all cars, not just those built in Europe. This effectively subsidizes the competition from China.

For subsidies to manufacturer, as I didn't quickly find any source making the direct comparison, I asked LLM to research it (I apologize for for this, but doing it manually would take too much time).

   BYD: ~15% producer-focused economic benefit under the Commission's methodology; 17.0% including the legacy NEV fiscal scheme.

   VW Europe: ~0.2–0.7% is my best public-data-based estimate of currently observable and allocatable producer support; roughly 0.7–1.3% if we deliberately make aggressive assumptions favorable to VW.

   VW extreme stress test: ~2.5–3.2%, obtained by implausibly allocating essentially all VW Group grants and tax credits to European BEVs.

See section 3.6:

Let's check what "Opinion 04/2012 on Cookie Consent Exemption" [0] says under section 3.6:

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3.6 UI customization cookies

User interface customization cookies are used to store a user’s preference regarding a service across web pages and not linked to other persistent identifiers such as a username. They are only set if the user has explicitly requested the service to remember a certain piece of information, for example, by clicking on a button or ticking a box.

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These customization functionalities are thus explicitly enabled by the user of an information society service (e.g. by clicking on button or ticking a box) although in the absence of additional information the intention of the user could not be interpreted as a preference to remember that choice for longer than a browser session (or no more than a few additional hours). As such only session (or short term) cookies storing such information are exempted under CRITERION B. The addition of additional information in a prominent location (e.g. “uses cookies” written next to the flag) would constitute sufficient information for valid consent to remember the user’s preference for a longer duration, negating the requirement to apply an exemption in this case.

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See that you need to provide provide "information in a prominent location (e.g. “uses cookies” written next to the flag)" to be able to store user preferences in persistent cookies. You don't need consent banner for that (which I didn't say you need), but you need to clearly inform the user. The act of setting a preference together with clear information about persistence counts as a valid consent.