Germany’s influential auto-industry lobby urged the German government on Wednesday to oppose proposed punitive EU tariffs on imported Chinese electric vehicles. A vote on the tariffs by EU countries is scheduled for Friday, and the tariffs would go into force at the end of the month. “A vote by the EU states to impose high additional tariffs on electric cars from China from the end of October would be a further step away from global cooperation,” Hildegard Müller, the president of the German Association of the Automobile Industry (VDA), told dpa. “This measure further increases the risk of a g…