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The EU shipped â16.3 billion worth of vehicles to China last year.

https://www.acea.be/statistics...

Average age of cars in the EU is 10.5 years, France 9 years, Germany 8.9 years.

Ford is the second best selling car manufacturer in Europe

No it isn't. Ford is the fifth best selling manufacturer in Europe, with a 6.4% market share that has been slowly shrinking for years. In 2016, they were less than 200 cars ahead of the number six, Daimler which is growing rapidly.

and a shift from diesel to petrol (except some countries like France where diesel is still very popular), have made the air here a lot cleaner since the '60s.

There has been no such shift. Diesel passenger cars were rare until the early 1980s and their market share grew gradually from then on. Moreover, such a shift would not have made the air cleaner. Before fuel injection and three-way catalysts with a lambda probe became standard in petrol engines (around 1990), diesel engines were significantly cleaner than petrols. Diesels caught up a bit when direct injection became common (early 1990s), but petrols remained cleaner until Euro 5 effectively mandated particulate filters for diesels and petrol engines started to use direct injection without particulate filters.

You made references as if I was in Europe. I'm not. Read the first two letters of my name, or my sig for a better hint of where I am.

Heh, talk about coincidence- I'm in Fairbanks. In any case, I didn't want to make any allegations. As far as I knew you had an unhealthy obsession with Harry Potter, or 'AK' were your initials. I normally pay no real attention to sigs.

After that, let me let you in on a little secret. I'd bet there are more PV panels per capita in Alaska than Nevada.

I know of 2 installs here in Fairbanks. I'm willing to bet there's a lot more down in Nevada, even per capita, though the remoteness and low population density which makes our electricity bloody expensive makes PV attractive here, at least in the summer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consumption The EU has more population and lower oil consumption. Thus savings measures will have a greater effect in the USA than Europe. Thus, EVs *should* be adopted in the US before Europe.

You live in Alaska and you don't know that there are more uses for oil than simply burning it in automobiles? I use approximately equal measures in my truck and house! If I had a family and the house was occupied more I'd be seriously looking at wood.

In any case:
Fewer cars? False. Though if you include 'all' 4+ wheel vehicles, we take the lead again(though it's still around 75% as many vehicles per capita).
Fewer miles? 14k km(9k miles), vs ~15k miles, though latest DOT is closer to 13k. So about 50% more. Your earlier assumption of 8k km was therefore only slightly above HALF of what the statistics actually say about average driving over in Europe, and is still less than if you misstated and meant miles. Plus Americans are driving less as well.
Better Economy: True, but I never disagreed with you there. On average, US vehicles use 32% more fuel. Still, Europe averaged €1.59/liter vs USA's $3.85. A US gallon is 3.79L, And 1 Euro =$1.28. Making European gas $7.71/gallon. Adjusting for the average superior mileage of European vehicles, they're still falling behind at $5.84/gallon equivalent. Raise prices that much and Americans drive less.

Again: My statement was merely trying to state that EV adoption should be quicker over in Europe.

1, The battery is the single thing that drives the cost of an EV higher than a traditional gasoline vehicle.
2. An EV driven less doesn't need as large of a battery.
3. A denser average population also means that potential charge points are also more common.
4. The cost of fuel is far higher in Europe

Conclusion: Small EVs should be quite popular over there(if they were 'almost' economical in the USA), but they're not, so they're not really that close yet.

Most of the land in Alaska has no access to any utilities at all.

True; though if you want water it's more 'dig a well' or 'drive into town once a week/month to fill up a big tank in the back of your truck' and most of our population IS collected around population centers where utilities(at least electricity) is available.

Still, just to fact check:
Alaska: .1 MWp. 723k people, .00014 MWp/person. Only 10 registered installs?.

Unless you're driving a car that already uses regenerative braking

True. If you're one of the 0.3%* of people who drive an electric vehicle, you may lose out.

*: Estimated based on most recently available sales figures, those for 2006, in which 54,000 electric vehicles were sold in Europe compared to 15.4 million cars overall. Later years may have had higher proportions electric, but earlier years undoubtedly had lower and those cars are mostly still on the road.

This process produces "7.05 kg CO2 ... per [1.0] kilogram hydrogen".

Now new cars are getting near 140.9 [grams] C02 [per kilometer] (This is a target, double it if you want)

So, how many KGs of Hydrogen does a Hydrogen powered car need per mile? Multiply x7.05kg to get emissions based on current production technologies.

Are these hydrogen cars poisoning the planet? With a 500 km (310 miles) range, a gas powered car at the target level could sequester and store about 70 kgs (154 pounds) of CO2.

If gas stations were required to accept and sequester this CO2, we could effectively eliminate CO2 emissions from most new automobiles without criss crossing the world with Hydrogen delivery lines or developing a totally new CO2 free hydrogen creation system.

Just capture 50% of CO2 emissions and you'll be doing quite fine as far as cutting emissions goes.