Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world

Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by leononame on Thursday June 13, 2024 @07:19AM (#40668207)

Where I'm from, when you say "biggest" country, it's by default population unless specified otherwise. Area really isn't an important metric here (unless your country is tiny), because the ability of economic and industrial output scales with population more than with area. The most logical comparison would be by GDP here, because we're comparing economy.

But for population, which is what I think about when specifying country size without any explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

Germany is #3 here. You'll see that Russia and Turkey are partly in Europe and bigger than Germany, but since they're mostly in Asia I think most people wouldn't consider them mainly European but rather mainly Asian. There's bound to be some discussion here since it really isn't very clear cut. I'll rephrase to "Germany is at least the third-biggest country in Europe".

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by kstenerud on Thursday June 13, 2024 @07:54AM (#40668519)

Also, colloquially Europeans consider Russia to be an uncivilized backwater, so they don't count. Turkey is considered more middle-east.

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by LtVodka on Thursday June 13, 2024 @08:07AM (#40668640)

>Also, colloquially Europeans consider Russia to be an uncivilized backwater, so they don't count.

citation needed. Otherwise, your prejudice has no place here.

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by kstenerud on Thursday June 13, 2024 @10:58AM (#40670537)

Chill... It's not like they're saying it publicly within earshot. Only the Finns, Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Polish, Ukrainians and Moldovans do that.

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by ivan_gammel on Thursday June 13, 2024 @07:26AM (#40668272)

Most of the population of Russia is in Europe and it was always considered European country, just like Britain, France, Spain or Portugal of the colonial period.

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by toenail on Thursday June 13, 2024 @07:22AM (#40668233)

Thanks, fwiw, Russia is still #1 by population if you only count population in Europe.

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by leononame on Thursday June 13, 2024 @07:31AM (#40668311)

That's definitely fair. I just blurped it out that way because, at least in my experience, Russia isn't really considered a European country "colloquially". At least where I'm from, people would usually say it's Asian when asked what continent Russia belongs to (if they had to pick one).

But I agree it doesn't really hold up to more detailed scrutiny.

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by oblio on Thursday June 13, 2024 @07:37AM (#40668352)

> At least where I'm from, people would usually say it's Asian when asked what continent Russia belongs to (if they had to pick one).

Heh, that's quite funny, where are you from? :-)

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by palata on Thursday June 13, 2024 @09:54AM (#40669668)

> At least where I'm from, people would usually say it's Asian when asked what continent Russia belongs to (if they had to pick one).

I believe you, but those people would then be wrong :-).

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by infecto on Thursday June 13, 2024 @08:02AM (#40668584)

When people speak about Europe, they are rarely including Russia and Turkey.

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Re:Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the ... by hawski on Thursday June 13, 2024 @07:21AM (#40668226)

Or just the biggest in the EU.

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