China’s share of purely electric vehicle imports into Germany rose to 40.9% in the first four months of this year, even though the number of such imported vehicles fell by 15.7%, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported on Tuesday. The European Commission last week warned that it was considering imposing punitive tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in a move that could also hit German carmakers producing in China for the export market. According to Destatis, imports of Chinese electric vehicles have been rising strongly, with 29.0% of the 447,200 units imported into Germany last yea…