Summary

  • Volkswagen beat Tesla in European EV sales across the first three months of 2025, data shows.
  • Registrations for VW EVs are up more than 150%, while Tesla lost huge ground.
  • However, the Model Y and Model 3 remain Europe’s top two most-registered EVs.
  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    in Europe in particular there’s way less charging infrastructure

    That’s the opposite of reality in many cases.

    For example, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Benelux countries have better charging networks AND much shorter distances between major population centers than the US in general.

    way more people living in apartments without the ability to set up a home charge station

    Would have been relevant a decade ago, but now there’s public chargers at more and more parking lots and highway rest stops plus at least one major gas station chain has chargers at every station here in Denmark.

    I have no doubt that conditions are even better in places like Norway and Sweden where they started adapting much earlier than we did.

    way more anxiety about charging full electric EVs as a consequence, depending on the region

    Bolded the only part you’ve been right about so far.

    plug-in hybrids seem like a reasonable way to bridge that gap.

    They were back when the battery technology and charging infrastructure wasn’t in place to support fully transitioning to EVs, but most of Europe is way ahead of you, so as a rule rather than an exception, hybrids are an unnecessary concession, Democratic Party style.

    But I’m already entertaining this conversation way more than I want, because it’s going to lead off on a tangent and I don’t want to go on that tangent and we’re going to end up in how public transport is the real answer and there are millions of threads here to go rehash that conversation

    TL;DR: you’re wrong and tired of trying to justify your false assumptions, so you try to preempt the logic conclusion that many have reached by implying that it’s wrong and/or or tedious.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      1 day ago

      Hey, I’ll say this, if you want to have this pointless argument with someone who isn’t me by just typing “TLDR” and making up some shit you have my wholehearted blessing. Beats having to comb through obnoxious quote blocks to nitpick the smaller fallacies, so go nuts.

      Call me when it gets to the full-on name calling, that’s always the most exciting part.