Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
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Re: Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
#2Isn't that a strange thing, considering Norway is vast, has low population density especially in the north, and has own oil resources available?
Re: Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
#3Isn't that a strange thing, considering Norway is vast, has low population density especially in the north, and has own oil resources available?
Re: Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
#4Isn't that a strange thing, considering Norway is vast, has low population density especially in the north, and has own oil resources available?
Their tax structure on vehicles is such that a loaded Tesla costs about the same as a Civic - the taxes (that are exempt on EVs) are quite massive on new cars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N... has extensive details, but they've got a set of incentives that exceedingly favor BEVs.
Re: Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
#520% of Norway's GDP comes from pumping oil out of the ground and selling it for others to burn. If they were really green that would stop.
Re: Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
#6Isn't that a strange thing, considering Norway is vast, has low population density especially in the north, and has own oil resources available?
One way to avoid the resource curse is to use the bounty of the resource to develop diversified dependencies/capabilities for a future when that resource runs out or is devalued.
Re: Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
#7Isn't that a strange thing, considering Norway is vast, has low population density especially in the north, and has own oil resources available?
Norway is wealthy thanks to selling fossil fuels. Norwegians feel guilty about that, but not guilty enough to stop selling them.
This is essentially performative environmentalism from them. Still, it will help other countries by throwing up unforeseen problems in all-electric ground transportation, and some solutions.
Re: Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
#8What a weird forecast, this is like saying "Bitcoin will hit $100k in 3 months." by looking at the price graph. Since people will still be allowed to buy such cars so far, I doubt 100% will ever be reached...
Re: Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
#920% of Norway's GDP comes from pumping oil out of the ground and selling it for others to burn. If they were really green that would stop.
Stopping it would be useless, it'd just increase production from oil wells of other countries. They could invest that money into accelerating green technology.
Re: Norway to hit 100% electric vehicle sales by early next year
#10Isn't that a strange thing, considering Norway is vast, has low population density especially in the north, and has own oil resources available?
Scandinavia in general takes global warming more seriously than most other countries on the planet. And so this isn't strange at all. The whole of Europe is amping up alternatives to petrol- and diesel-based transportation, from e-bikes, cargo e-bikes, e-scooters to Teslas and electric Porsches (Taycan), and anything inbetween.