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Over Half of Norway Car Sales Are Now Electric (reuters.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the leading-the-way dept.

The Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Monday that almost 60 percent of all new cars sold in the country last month were fully electric, "a global record as the country seeks to end fossil-fueled vehicles sales by 2025," reports Reuters. From the report: Exempting battery engines from taxes imposed on diesel and petrol cars has upended Norway's auto market, elevating brands like Tesla and Nissan, with its Leaf model, while hurting sales of Toyota, Daimler and others. In 2018, Norway's fully electric car sales rose to a record 31.2 percent market share from 20.8 percent in 2017, far ahead of any other nation, and buyers had to wait as producers struggled to keep up with demand.

The surge of electric cars to a 58.4 percent market share in March came as Tesla ramped up delivery of its mid-sized Model 3, which retails from 442,000 crowns ($51,400), while Audi began deliveries of its 652,000-crowns e-tron sports utility vehicle. 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.

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  1. Proof of viability by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Norway has severe weather, sub zero temperatures for much of the year, heavy snow, and people need to travel long distances. All the things that people say make EVs unsuitable.

    Norway put in the infrastructure. Charging everywhere. EVs work great there.

    Well done Norway.

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    1. Re:Proof of viability by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Apparently several people didn't get your joke.

      Actually the other classic anti-EV argument, the off-grid remote cabin with no possibility of solar or wind power, is actually a thing in Norway too.

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    2. Re:Proof of viability by AHuxley · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well done at the tax rate. Thats all that happened. A huge new tax on non electric car sales.
      Making the population to have to save up and get an electric car. Pay a huge new tax on a non electric car.

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    3. Re:Proof of viability by quenda · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Norway has severe weather, sub zero temperatures for much of the year, heavy snow, and people need to travel long distances. All the things that people say make EVs unsuitable.

      Norway put in the infrastructure. Charging everywhere. EVs work great there.

      Well done Norway.

      You forget to add: Norway has the billions of tons of oil exports to pay for it.

    4. Re:Proof of viability by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You forget to add: Norway has the billions of tons of oil exports to pay for it.

      So has the US. So has the UK. So have lots of countries. But only Norway did it.

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  2. Re:I wonder where their electricity comes from... by mvreijn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, that and the fact that they can afford all of these huge expenditures in infrastructure and subsidies because they became rich through oil.

  3. Re:I wonder where their electricity comes from... by houghi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is an even better thing. They used the gains from their country for the good of the people, instead of for a few individuales that own shares in the company.

    Can you imagine that instead of the oil barons in Texas, they would have put that money into use for the people, to be used by the people? Or instead of the coalmine owners, used that money to re-educate the people now their jobs became useless.

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  4. Re:I wonder where their electricity comes from... by virtig01 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every drop of oil not burned in Norway is a drop that might not be burned at all: if not used as fuel, it could instead be used in plastics, lubricants, or petrochemicals.