Summary
Norway is on track to become the first country to eliminate gasoline and diesel cars from new car sales, with EVs making up over 96% of recent purchases.
Decades of incentives, including tax breaks and infrastructure investments, have driven this shift.
Officials see EV adoption as a “new normal” and aim for electric city buses by 2025.
While other countries lag behind, Norway’s success demonstrates the potential for widespread EV adoption.
While other countries lag behind, Norway’s success demonstrates the potential for widespread EV adoption.
Decades of incentives, including tax breaks and infrastructure investments, have driven this shift.
Basically, if your government really wants it and doesn’t give in to lobbying then they can do it.
It’s many years of concerted effort with successive administrations keeping up the commitment.
Our 2024 figure for % of new cars being electric was 19.6% in the UK so I’d be very surprised if we hit the 2030 target of 80% new cars sold being zero emission.
Norway progresses while the USA regresses going full fucking 3rd World with Orange Nero.
Just give us 10 years and we’ll be right there with you.
it’s very cool to not drive in that country because you don’t need to and you wouldn’t because you’re not fat
Norway… Who’s primary exports are crude oil and petroleum gas.
Also Norway is cold and EVs do not do well in the cold. Especially with current battery technology.
Rightttt, if only we had literal millions of these cars work in freezing temps. They’re better in cold that ice cars.
If that’s the case why are all of the vehicles in the Arctic diesel? The south Pole is all diesel.
Anywhere that spends time regularly in the negatives does not use electric vehicles.
Diesel straight up doesn’t run when it gets cold enough. Diesel fuel becomes jelly in the negatives. They have to mix it with avgas to keep it liquid enough.
My apologies I should have been more specific. It’s a special diesel fuel they call AN8. Generally still referred to simpy as Diesel. The vehicles they put it into are diesel vehicles.
I live in the arctic circle and there’s a lot of EVs. Mine is petrol, I don’t know why everyone has to be diesel unless you really like listening to the starter go hnnng.
There are plenty of EVs in the arctic of Norway.
I the antarctic, where the south pole is, there is limited electric production, so it is easier to use ICE vehicles.
They do work slightly worse when it’s very cold, but it’s fine.
See my response to the guy above. I don’t think you can say it’s only “slightly” worse.
This thread is so fucking funny. Its not like we started driving EV’s in Norway this fall, and then in winter they all stopped working . I am telling my EV it’s not working, but god dammit, it just won’t listen to me.
