6,048 "EVs" Registered in September — Only 495 Were Actual Cars. Boom or Spin?

Sri Lanka's EV registrations hit 6,048 units in September, up 19% from August — a number dealers and officials love to cite as proof the EV shift is real. Break it down and electric two-wheelers made up 5,030 of that, over 83%, while actual electric motor cars came to just 495, plus another 146 EV SUVs/crossovers, mostly BYD's ATTO 1 and ATTO 2. One side says this still counts: scooters are cheap to electrify, cut daily petrol spend for thousands of riders who were never going to afford a car anyway, and the car segment will grow once prices ease. The other side says the "EV boom" headline is doing a lot of work for a market where electric cars remain a rounding error, while charging points, workshops and resale value are all still built around petrol and hybrid cars, not EVs. When you see "100,000 EVs" or "6,000 new EVs" in a headline, do you mentally split that into cars and scooters, or does the combined number mislead you into thinking more drivers have gone electric than actually have? මේ ඉලක්කම් දෙකම එකම 'EV' කාණ්ඩයට දාන එක හරිද? ඔයාලගේ අදහස මොකක්ද?