• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Last year, over 381,000 electric cars were sold in the UK – more than any country in Europe, and the third highest number of any country in the world

    Riiiight. Well seeing how the population is also the second largest in Europe, that’s a pretty useless statement. Per capita they aren’t even close the one random country (the Netherlands, my other nationality) that I checked.

    381k for 70m people in the UK is 5442 per million.

    168k for 18m people in the Netherlands is 9333 per million.

    Lies and statistics.

    Edit: Germany sold 184k in half a year last year and 248k in the first half of this year. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/germany-sees-record-e-car-sales-first-half-year-data-show-2025-07-16

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      5 days ago

      Germany, UK, France are the biggest markets, UK and France have the same population and the UK sold 100k more than France last year. So more per capita

      Why are you only giving 2025 sales for Germany? Lies, damn lies, and statistics eh?

      The UK is phasing out all ICE cars by 2030. The EU has just abandoned the pledge do to the same by 2035.

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        The UK is phasing out all ICE cars by 2030.

        Not at this rate they’re not.

        The EU has just abandoned the pledge do to the same by 2035.

        Because they’re ALSO not going to, at this rate, they’re just admitting it.

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          4 days ago

          Phasing out manufacturing, not all cars, obviously

          Is that the best you have got? The EU is winning the race to the bottom they screeched about during the ‘negotiations’, turns out we’d be in a worse place if we had agreed dynamic alignment

          Pretty fucking ironic