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Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Re: Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Post by Symbiote »

usrnm wrote: post #7
hdgvhicv wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people charge EVs at home most of the time.

In Europe? A lot of people live in apartment buildings

I don't own a car myself, but there are public EV charging points opposite my apartment in Denmark, and some in the (small) private underground parking garage.

I have rented the pay-per-minute electric cars a few times, and have always found it easy to get a discount on the next journey by leaving it plugged into a charger.

This says there are over 50,000 charging points: https://eletric-vehicles.com/general/denmarks-public-ev-char...

Re: Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Post by ExxKA »

wood_spirit wrote: post #17

It is interesting that the big selling brands are Skoda (VW group) and VW itself, then a resurgent Tesla in third place. These are companies that are claiming hardship from Chinese EV imports and VW is planning to lay off 100K employees.

Denmark is right next to Germany, so has a high affinity for German car brands. Even with worse specs than the chinese imports, the danes feel the german brands are a higher quality a more stable producer who will be there for the long run, so service and guarantees can be trusted.

Re: Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Post by adrianN »

hvb2 wrote: post #20
capitol_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least here in Norway it has, it seems like it's not very difficult to put some cables in the ground and install a big pre built metal box :) Most gas stations have them and there is also a lot of street charging stations. But it's still cheapest to charge at home.

> it's not very difficult to put some cables in the ground and install a big pre built metal box :) But increasingly it's becoming a problem that those cables have nowhere to run to as the grid isn't capable of serving them all. There might be excess generation but unless you have the capacity in the wires to get it where it's needed you're still stuck. Especially in dense old cuties where the grid was built when the…

The problem can be alleviated with more chargers. If every parking spot had a charger you could slow-charge with much lower pressure on the grid. 2kW over night are plenty for most people’s driving needs.

Re: Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Post by mschild »

Buttons840 wrote: post #14
jwr wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. And it's not the number of charging stations, it's the general shittiness of those. You never know how much you will pay per kWh, there are apps, networks, roaming agreements, cards, getting through this mess and starting to charge is always a challenge and takes a significant time (sometimes comparable to charging time!). You also get gouged on pricing, companies clearly set it so that the cost of 100km is compa…

Are charging stations subsidized? That could be a good excuse to add regulations. I've heard the subsidies are the reason why there's so many shitty charging stations. People build them, collect the subsidies, and never actually care about running it well. A silver lining is at least the space is reserved once we decide to get serious about fixing this as a society.

Charging stations just need to function like regular gas stations.

Prices need to be made available online and prominently displayed at the entrance of the station. They shouldn't allow cheaper prices for subscriptions or even blocking any access without one.

Re: Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Post by somethingweird »

postepowanieadm wrote: post #13
capitol_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least here in Norway it has, it seems like it's not very difficult to put some cables in the ground and install a big pre built metal box :) Most gas stations have them and there is also a lot of street charging stations. But it's still cheapest to charge at home.

It's much harder to make a magic juice that moves though the cables and boxes ;)

Is it really that much harder than making the magic juice that legacy cars run on? By now it is cheaper and less reliant on despots all over the world to get electricity than fuel in most of Europe I assume. Electricity is a great interface as well given the actual source of energy doesn't matter as much and is interchangeable.

Re: Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Post by ktallett »

ExxKA wrote: post #23
wood_spirit wrote: post #17

It is interesting that the big selling brands are Skoda (VW group) and VW itself, then a resurgent Tesla in third place. These are companies that are claiming hardship from Chinese EV imports and VW is planning to lay off 100K employees.

Denmark is right next to Germany, so has a high affinity for German car brands. Even with worse specs than the chinese imports, the danes feel the german brands are a higher quality a more stable producer who will be there for the long run, so service and guarantees can be trusted.

Overall all long-term tests suggest they are correct and they are higher quality. They are less flashy but build is better.

Re: Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

hvb2 wrote: post #20
capitol_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least here in Norway it has, it seems like it's not very difficult to put some cables in the ground and install a big pre built metal box :) Most gas stations have them and there is also a lot of street charging stations. But it's still cheapest to charge at home.

> it's not very difficult to put some cables in the ground and install a big pre built metal box :) But increasingly it's becoming a problem that those cables have nowhere to run to as the grid isn't capable of serving them all. There might be excess generation but unless you have the capacity in the wires to get it where it's needed you're still stuck. Especially in dense old cuties where the grid was built when the…

>incandescent light bulbs

which are an order of magnitude less efficient than contemporary LED lights.

Re: Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Post by Markoff »

it is hidden behind paywall, here no paywall and in English

https://www.electrive.com/2026/08/04/denmark-evs-account-for...

also it should be noted that Denmark has extremely high car registration taxes, so for instance 40K EUR worth ICE car cost after registration 73.5K EUR, while 40K EUR BEV cost after registration 40K EUR, that's really tough choice to make - either you pay 73K EUR for ICE or 40K EUR for BEV, both with same price tag in dealership + BEV has other benefits like cheaper parking etc.

if gov were to remove these artificial (B)EV tax benefits then we would really see what would people choose, but gov is completely influecing the market, so people just do what is currently beneficial for their wallet, it is for sure not due to EV being good, do you think people would buy EVs if tax rates were reversed and ICE would cost 40K EUR and BEV would cost 73K EUR?

Re: Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

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Post by sqbic »

No wonder, the country is so small that any modern EV can drive it around completely with single charge. They also have abundance of especially wind energy, and the government recently dropped the electricity tax to EU minimum in order to make electricity very affordable for the Danish folks.
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