I don't think you see me writing that Norway doesn't have a very high adoption of EVs?
I'm also not saying your numbers are wrong or false.
I'm simply saying that you can't take sales statistics (especially not for a single brand) and extrapolate these to indicate the extend of adoption of EVs. That is what I find misleading. It's not something those numbers can actually do.
Note that Eppie for example immediately pondered over the fact that Canada isn't on the list despite seeing Tesla's on the road. I had the same notion - I see Tesla's left and right and there are substantially more EVs and specifically Tesla's here than your table would indicate.
If you look at more meaningful sources, for example the registration data of EVs in the EU27 as percentage of new registrations, you'll find a picture much more in line with reality, when speaking of EV adoption. Note that this is still old data (2022 as your table).
Please note how many countries shift position significantly in the "ranking" when you factor in inhabitants, all car brands and look at registrations (graph on the left) vs sales numbers from a single brand.
In my opinion, this data is much more valid as an indication of EV adoption, but even so
still only for 2022 in isolation. It's not an accumulative number. So it doesn't tell us what is on the street, but rather how what is on the streets is changing.
To expand on that point, Denmark had registered a total of 100,000 EVs by October 12, 2023 and 200,000 EVs by end of the same year. So the first 100,000 vehicles took around a decade while the next 100,000 took less than three months. So in a changing market like EVs, it's not always reliable to study snapshots of two years ago.
I'm raising this point because it is exceptionally difficult to actually find reliable, neutral and comparable information on specifically the cumulative adoption of EVs by country - and probably because of that, most of the EV debate seems to constantly revolve around drawing conclusions from statistical sources that aren't really suited to make those conclusions. Not to even begin on the lobbying and other influences on the majority of available data out there.
In my opinion it's a plague of the EV debate because if reliable and accurate data is presented in a loyal way, everyone benefits except perhaps those with vested interests (lobbying) and honestly, I couldn't care less if their perspectives arent honoured.
You see the exact same with fires, where data is misused or not used. Every EV fire gets massive attention, yet statistically they are significantly less likely to burst into flames than ICE vehicles. The issue is rather to put out the fires in EVs, and when we discuss this with valid data, we find effective solutions, like different methods of firefighting. But when we misuse data, we get dumb poop like "Ban EVs from ferries and parking structures, and if you own one, park it outside your garage well clear of anything."
Valid data and loyal use of it is important.
