European! (Built in China)
I’ll bite the top voted post - this is not the right mentality to have. OP just bought from an EU company and wanted to post to our community, shouldn’t we be a bit more encouraging? The EU consumer electronics industry simply isn’t there yet for the charger case - see my other post
In my opinion it does not belong here. I appreciate the hype and effort of trying to buy European ,but there is no reason calling this European simply because the distributor is European or they have put their name on the product
We have the same issue here in Denmark. Super markets have started marking European products with a star on the price tag. They do mark Californian raisins as European, simply because a European brand buys them from the US and distributes them.
@cosmicrookie @BenchpressMuyDebil
Most of the world’s manufacturing is in Asia. Not just electronics, but textiles, clothing, shoes, tools, decorations and thousands of other things.
But if we use the same logic, we shouldn’t say an iPhone is American since it’s made in China.
As an electronics designer professionally I just want to chime in.
With current infrastructure, it is very very very difficult to not go bankrupt and making consumer products in the EU the price for these sort of small products would be double to triple and of the same quality (I.e. shit products would also be shit, just much more expensive).
We need to be investing in automation infrastructure in low cost of living areas to get anywhere near competitive. Even current PCB manufacturers in Italy, Portugal, and Hungary are useful for B2B industrial, medical, and aerospace products mostly because the cost to assemble the PCBs is simply too high for consumers to consider buying.
Look at fairphone. They are designed in NL, software written in the EU, and still produced in China (searching for better conditions though) and like 90% of consumers that consider them won’t buy them specifically because of price point.
Designed in the EU, produced in china (and software in the EU) is already a large step up because development costs and profits go to EU companies, even if produced in China. Small companies have no other choice.
Didn’t know they where German. My main association with them is that their stuff is kinda ass.
Same. I worked in an electronics store. This was one of the manufacturers where products broke so often we had a separate bin for their broken products.
But it was also one of the “refund anytime, no questions asked” manufacturers where we could just say how many value of products we got returned and they would just refund the amount to us. No pesky RMA process, no repairs, just take it back whenever the customer is unhappy and throw it away.
Good on you for at least using an European company. Finding the manufacturer making everything from start to finish in Europe can be exhausting. I was interested and I’ve found https://en.recable.eu/products/usb-a-usb-c-30-watt-charger - still made in China but the company is German. This is also the first foldable EU plug charger I’ve seen. The cables they make are handmade thus expensive, but I like the message: moving the production burden from overseas to back home.
For others, there is also the probaby-made-in-china-but-at-least-by-a-eu-bcorp Fairphone Dual-port 30W charger or the Pinepower - sadly with NA adapter
EDIT: Also https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/USB-C-wall-mount-100-Watt-EU-Power-Plug_1.tuxedo#gallery says assembled in Germany
In the video you can see the plug body is not flush with the rest of the charger when it’s folded, but still pretty interesting. I’m on the fence whether I should get it - it’s pretty big - the chinesium Baseus charger I have is smaller still I think
By “European” you mean “made in China”?
Friendly reminder IKEA sell some top notch USB chargers and cables.
