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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.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
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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