Comparing EV adoption in Europe
The European Alternative Fuels Observatory has a website with lots of interesting data about EV adoption in Europe. It can for instance be seen what the top ten countries are with regard to the share of EVs in the total cars sales.
Those data are shown below and consider the first four months of 2018. It can be seen that, as expected, Norway is on top of the list. Nearly half of the cars sold there has a plug. The other Scandinavian country that is not in the EU, Iceland, comes in second (at 16%) just before Sweden (7%).
Source: own work based on data from EAFO
When you look at the absolute numbers, it can be seen that Norway has been surpassed by Germany as the country where most EVs have been sold. Since Germany is the biggest European country and, therefore, has the largest car market that is not very surprising that this was going to happen at a certain moment in time. What is surprising is that Norway is still on top when only Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) are considered.
Source: own work based on data from EAFO
Another way to look at the data is to look at the relative share of BEV and PHEV in the total EV sales. Countries where all plug in cars are fully electric are Leichtenstein and Malta. In those countries however only 11 and 10 EVs have been sold. Looking at the larger markets - where at least 1,000 EVs have been sold - The Netherlands (87% BEV share), Austria (72%) and France (67%) are on top.
Source: own work based on data from EAFO
As we already agreed on in your former post on this subject, a lot of work needs to be done to make the numbers better.
But it takes time. When we bought our recent car some years ago, an electric car was not a real option. The ones that did perform well, meaning you could get anywhere without having to recharge were very expensive. The car salesman said the car they had only could bring you something like 90 km farther. That is not enough.
So we bought a regular car. We also hope this car will last a long while. We are not the kind of people to switch cars just for fun. The one we have will have to break down before we go look for another one.
This is probably true for many other people too. This unfortunately keeps the numbers low.
I think most people use a car just as you do. It is true that there are too little affordable EVs with enough range, so a very logical decision to buy an ICE car instead.
I still hope that car sharing is going to be a good alternative for everybody owning their own car. In that case you can share the high upfront costs of an EV and benefit from the low running costs at the same time.