Riese & Müller Charger4
Riese & Müller
Touring e-bike assembled to order at the Riese & Müller plant in Mühltal, near Darmstadt
Alternative to Specialized Turbo, Trek e-bike
61 products · 17 countries · every claim dated
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Products in the library
44
Producers covered
17
Countries represented
18
Records with majority-verified evidence
Riese & Müller
Touring e-bike assembled to order at the Riese & Müller plant in Mühltal, near Darmstadt
Alternative to Specialized Turbo, Trek e-bike
Miele
Front-loading washing machine built in Germany and Poland, tested for up to 20 years of use
Alternative to Samsung washing machine, LG washing machine
ORTLIEB
Waterproof bike panniers made at ORTLIEB's own factory in Bavaria
ORTLIEB
The waterproof courier classic, made at ORTLIEB's Bavarian factory
Alternative to Timbuk2 messenger bag, Chrome messenger bag
Tuta
Encrypted mailbox with open-source clients, on Tuta's own hardware in Germany
Alternative to Gmail
Vivaldi
Norwegian browser with deep customisation and no user tracking
Alternative to Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge
Proton
End-to-end encrypted email and calendar on Proton's own servers in Switzerland, Germany and Norway
Alternative to Gmail, Outlook
Hetzner
Cloud servers and storage from a German provider, with locations in Germany, Finland, the USA and Singapore
Alternative to AWS, DigitalOcean
Most lists are yes/no. A product is either “European” or it is not, which hides everything interesting: a Dutch brand assembling in Asia, a Norwegian browser owned from Beijing, a German SaaS running on a US hyperscaler.
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