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mahatmakanejeeves

(62,103 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 10:17 AM Monday

Norway on track to be first to go all-electric

Norway on track to be first to go all-electric

14 hours ago
Adrienne Murray
Business reporter
Reporting from Oslo


BBC Norwegian motorist Ståle Fyen smiles as he attaches a charging cable to his electric carBBC
Like a third of Norwegian motorists, Ståle Fyen now drives an electric car

Norway is the world leader when it comes to the take up of electric cars, which last year accounted for nine out of 10 new vehicles sold in the country. Can other nations learn from it?

For more than 75 years Oslo-based car dealership Harald A Møller has been importing Volkswagens, but early in 2024 it bid farewell to fossil fuel cars. ... Now all the passenger vehicles for sale in its showroom are electric (EV). ... "We think it's wrong to advise a customer coming in here today to buy an ICE [internal combustion engine] car, because the future is electric," says chief executive Ulf Tore Hekneby, as he walks around the cars on display. "Long-range, high-charging speed. It's hard to go back."

On the streets of Norway's capital, Oslo, battery-powered cars aren't a novelty, they're the norm. Take a look around and you'll soon notice that almost every other car has an "E" for "electric" on its licence plate. ... The Nordic nation of 5.5 million people has adopted EVs faster than any other country, and is on the cusp of becoming the first to phase out the sale of new fossil fuel cars.

Last year, the number of electric cars on Norway's roads outnumbered those powered by petrol for the first time. When diesel vehicles are included, electric cars account for almost a third of all on Norwegian roads. ... And 88.9% of new cars sold in the country last year were EVs, up from 82.4% in 2023, data from the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) showed.

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Finishline42

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3. And it looks like almost all of their electricity is from Hydro
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:26 PM
Monday

Great move by them.

They tax ICE vehicles to the point that an EV makes too much $en$e.

NNadir

(34,944 posts)
6. They are a major exporter of oil, bitching about what their German customer...
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 02:36 PM
Tuesday

...is doing to European electricity prices during Dunkleflaute.

Norway is a small country - I briefly worked there - doesn't have many cars, and thus will not require as many cobalt slaves as say, the City of New York, which has a population 1.5 times that of Norway.

It is of course unsurprising to find people fond of increasing the number of cobalt slaves working for the likes of Musk taking a trivial case, and pretending it's infinitely scalable.

After decade after decade of this bullshit, one would think such ethical homucculi might notice that the planet is burning while they wax romantic about the so called "renewable energy" car CULTure that did not come, is not here, and won't come.

That of course would be far too much to ask, as well I understand.

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