Nearly 80% of Norway's new car sales are electric

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

OSLO - Demand for Tesla Inc's mid-sized models helped push up electric car sales in Norway to nearly 80% of total car sales last month, data showed on Friday.

The country has been a global leader in switching to electric vehicles and seeks to become the first to end the sale of petrol and diesel engines by 2025.

Battery electric vehicles made up 77.5% of all new cars in September, the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) said, up from 61.5% a year ago.

Tesla Model Y, a compact sports utility vehicle, was the top selling vehicle with 19.8% of the car market followed by the company's Model 3 sedan with 12.3%. Skoda's Enyaq was a distant third at 4.4%.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/nearly-80-of-norway-s-new-car-sales-are-electric/ar-AAP4tj0

[jimfields33]

1. We should be seeing some positive numbers coming out of this

Maybe a total less carbon in the atmosphere. A whole country green has to do something to affect numbers.

[Shermann]

3. Norway is like a pimple on China's coal-colored ass nt

[jimfields33]

4. I forgot about them.

[Shermann]

5. But it is still a great milestone for a country nt

[jimfields33]

6. Absolutely true.

[PoliticAverse]

2. "Norway - the EV capital of the world"

From: https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/getting-around/by-car/electric-cars/

“In 2020, 54 per cent of the new cars that were sold in Norway were EVs. And it is important to note that when we talk about EVs, we mean fully electric cars. Plug-in hybrids aren’t part of that number. If we included those like they do in many other countries, we would get to a whopping 74 per cent!” says Christina Bu, secretary general of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association.

But why? The political goal is for the whole of the Norwegian car fleet to be zero-emission (electric or hydrogen) by 2025. Which means that there are all sorts of incentives to get people to go green: purchase subsidies, cheaper parking, tolls and ferry tickets, and access to bus and taxi lanes.

“But the maybe strongest incentive is that we heavily tax the purchase of polluting petrol and diesel cars”, Bu explains.

No wonder, then, that no other country in the world has more electric vehicles per capita.

Secondly, electric cars are cool! They don’t smell bad. They are silent. And you can drive them for several hundred kilometres before you need to charge them. Not that charging is a problem in Norway – we have more than 16,000 charging stations, including 3,300 fast chargers, all over the country. So no need for range anxiety.

Note that Norway gets most of its electricity from hydroelectric generation.

[madaboutharry]

7. I was in Oslo a few years ago.

There were charging stations right at the curb on many of the city streets. It makes sense that this is even more prevalent today.

They are far ahead of the curve on electric vehicles.

The oxymoron of it all is that Norway’s national wealth comes from oil in the North Sea.

[MichMan]

8. We could do it too if we taxed gas and diesel vehicles like they do.

Often 50% of the sticker price I believe. Wonder what politician will propose that?