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You need to have a registered address or a friend in Germany in order to take advantage of the incentives. The car must be with German plates for the first year, which presents some other problems.

Some German auto dealers are skirting the law by buying EVs, getting the money from the two incentives while keeping the car sitting for some time, then selling it abroad for a bit less than it costs to buy it there.

Ah yes, seems to be a thing - https://thedriven.io/2022/02/21/germany-to-tighten-ev-subsid...

There are rules against car registration/importing to prevent this. Or else everyone in Western Europe would just buy and register their cars in Latvia/Romania etc.

Not possible unless you can prove German residency.

Very likely those incentives are only for residents.

Not unless I go live there for a while.