If you live in Switzerland

and own a Tesla or equivalent I hope you have good footwear because you will be walking a lot. Switzerland is going through an electricity crisis and is about to ban electric cars for all but emergency use. Funnily enough unless you keep your car charged it will drain and you won't be using it for emergencies either.

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smileylovesgaming · 31-35, FVIP

Europe is no where close to ready for electric cars at all

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@smileylovesgaming Which part of Europe?

You are not correct anyway, although Europe is nearly thirty separate countries, most but not all in the EU; and the proportion of EV registrations will vary from nation to nation.

Electric cars are already very common in Norway, and becoming more numerous in the UK, for example - European countries but non-EU. The number of public charging points everywhere is rising, too.

I looked it up:

The share of new electric cars registered in the EU, including both battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), has significantly grown in the last decade. The number of new electric cars increased from just 600 vehicles in 2010 to 1 million in 2020, and 2.4 million in 2023. During 2024, BEVs accounted for 13.6% of total new car registrations, while PHEVs represented 7.3%.

Those are official, independent figures, not ones hyped by manufacturers' and dealers' associations, Greenpeace or a political-party publicist. Source: the EU's European Environment Agency.

There was a slight drop in BEV registrations in 2024 but no=one would sensibly expect a steady rise without occasional dips or eventual flattening. The rate of registrations of new PHEVs is lower though, perhaps as the battery-only ones' ranges improve. The same source states more choices are available and,

Due to advancements in battery technology, ... larger batteries and increasingly efficient drivetrains, many electric cars offer ranges - under type-approval conditions - > 400 kilometres. Several models are now reaching more than 500km on a single charge.

"Type-approval conditions" means formal, scientific tests, not what individual owners might obtain in normal driving, but still shows impressive improvements over the last decade. Also, this does not break the figures down by nation, only represents the bloc, matching your comment.

So I am afraid you, or your source, are incorrect.

I should add I had to look up the figures - I did not know.

Also, I do not own a battery-electric or hybrid car but an ordinary, small one with a petrol engine.

[Ref: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/new-registrations-of-electric-vehicles]