Re:VW sees EVs making up 90% of Norway sales in 2021
by Someone on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:01AM
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I think you should somehow scale that by country size. For example, there are about 5½ million Norwegians. I think that, in production per capita, only smaller countries such as Kuwait and Qatar score higher.
Having said that, because of the law of large numbers, in any ranking scaled by size, the outliers typically are the smaller entities.
Re:VW sees EVs making up 90% of Norway sales in 2021
by nullandvoid on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:03AM
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I know nothing much on this topic, but worth considering Norway's population is 5 million, versus 330 million in the US.
All of a sudden it doesn't seem that impressive if Norway is only producing 15% the amount of the US
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-production-by-country/
[edit] For all those who scale with population: it doesn't really matter for production. Population matters for consumption, and emissions (if they were producing 5% of US CO2, it would really look bad for Norway; but they don't - per capita the emit half than what US does per capita[1]). I guess it could matter in "benefit per capita"... if that were a thing (outside Norway maybe). I.e. how much did you benefit from US oil production, vs. how much Exxon benefited? I mean, yeah US citizens benefited from cheap gas - but that's because of middle-east production, so in reality the production elsewhere in the world should count on the US as "pollution".
[1]https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/norway?country=~NOR#p...