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The actual data worth looking will the percentage of electric vehicles to ones that run on conventional fuel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_J... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country#Ja...

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of note: Japan has about 80 million total vehicles (via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle#Japan ) -- so while the number of pure electric vehicles is rising, it's still a small percentage overall.

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