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Does that make the achievement easier?
by CogitoCogito 3y ago
Does that make the achievement easier?
- sneed_chucker 3y agoUh yeah? Lots of stuff is fundamentally easier with only 5 million people, especially if the population is highly urbanized like Norway. For one thing, roughly speaking around 15 million EVs are produced a year right now. So ignoring politics, economics, administration and operating purely on the basis of what's physically possible, each Norwegian could have 3 electric cars this year if we sent all EV production capacity to them. Meanwhile Germany has around 80 million people, France and UK around 70m each, Italy around 60m, and Poland around 40m. So for any of these culturally, politically, and economically similar countries, even in the hypothetical scenario here where we direct all of the global production of EVs to one country it would take multiple years for every person to get just one. Ok, now consider that Russia, Japan, and Mexico each have well over 100 million people. Pakistan and Brazil have over 200m, the USA over 300m, China and India are both over 1.4 billion. So yeah, I'd say it's definitely much easier to hit national percentage targets when you're working with 5 million people...
- thelastgallon 3y agoEVs reached 33% of sales in China, 35% in Germany: https://apnews.com/article/automakers-electric-vehicles-us-china-sales-d121c09a61f50e7357f5675af4b6056b https://apnews.com/article/automakers-electric-vehicles-us-c...