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Almost a Third of New Cars Sold In Norway Last Year Were Pure Electric (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Almost a third of new cars sold in Norway last year were pure electric, a new world record as the country strives to end sales of fossil-fueled vehicles by 2025. In a bid to cut carbon emissions and air pollution, Norway exempts battery-driven cars from most taxes and offers benefits such as free parking and charging points to hasten a shift from diesel and petrol engines. The independent Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Wednesday that electric cars rose to 31.2 percent of all sales last year, from 20.8 percent in 2017 and just 5.5 percent in 2013, while sales of petrol and diesel cars plunged. The sales figures consolidate Norway's global lead in electric car sales per capita, part of an attempt by Western Europe's biggest producer of oil and gas to transform to a greener economy. For comparison, electric cars had a 2.2 percent share in China in 2017 and 1.2 percent in the United States, according to IEA data.
Norway generates about 90% of it's electrical power via Hydro.
That, and the fact the country could fit into Texas twice, you have the perfect place for electric cars.
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More BS. "So many people". That amount to about 44,000 cars sold in a year. That means 0.008% of the population bought an EV. More hype from Tesla shysters trying to pump up the stock by convincing everyone that people are buying $60,000+ cars in large numbers.
The most popular car sold in Norway last year was the Leaf, not the iPace.
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The fastest selling EV in Norway is the Leaf.
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The reason is tax-breaks, no tolls, free parking, no import/purchase tax, no road tax, driving in bus lanes. Saving the environment isn't one of those reasons.
Saving the environment is the reason for the tax breaks, etc.
The fastest selling EV there is the Jaguar iPace.
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From TFA:
I can't find whole-year figures that include December, but up through November the Jaguar iPace was #20. The top three were the Leaf, the VW e-Golf and the BMW i3.
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The fastest selling EV there is the Jaguar iPace.
It's still only preorders. Top selling cars in Norway 2018:
1. Nissan Leaf 8.3%
2. Volkswagen Golf 6.7%
3. BMW i3 3.8%
4. Tesla Model X 3.4%
5. Mitsubishi Outlander 2.9%
6. Toyota Yaris 2.6%
7. Volvo XC60 2.5%
8. Tesla Model S 2.5%
9. Toyota Rav4 2.5%
10. Renault Zoe 2.1%
They don't break the Golf down between the regular one and e-Golf, but that and the Leaf are the big commuter cars. The Leaf starts at $32k, the iPace will start at $68k so for a very different market. Other than that I fully agree it's only because of government sponsorship. But hey, we're voting in "green" politicians (it's either blue-green or red-green, at the moment blue-green) so we get what we vote for. Though it should also be said we have lots of hydro and wind power - not so much solar - so it makes sense to use electricity at home and export the oil and gas. That way we can pretend to be environmentally friendly, as long as the emissions happen somewhere else.
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It actually is relevant because if you live in a backwards shithole like West Virginia or Utah that gets a lot of coal power, it makes less sense because it is way more expensive and dirtier then the worst car.
Actually, coal-powered EVs are cheaper to power and cleaner than the best ICEVs, even hybrids. Coal is generally dirtier than gasoline or diesel, but the dramatically higher efficiencies available in a large, high-temperature power plant vs a small, low-temperature engine more than make up the difference.
I live in Utah, BTW. And drive an EV. Last month I drove 2024 miles, and spent $24.09 on charging (I have a meter on my home EV charger, which is the only place I charge). If I were driving a gasoline car that gets 35 mpg, at $2.50 per gallon that would cost me $142.50 in fuel. Tell me again which is more expensive?
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