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Collapse of EV sales in Norway? Quick, someone needs to call Tesla about that.. https://electrek.co/2017/12/19/tesla-breaks-new-records-norway-most-popular-aut

Collapse of EV sales in Norway? Quick, someone needs to call Tesla about that.. https://electrek.co/2017/12/19/tesla-breaks-new-records-norway-most-popular-automaker/ https://electrek.co/2017/12/19/tesla-breaks-new-records-norw...

olivermarks 9y ago
https://www.ft.com/content/fe6b79d4-af31-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e130 https://www.ft.com/content/fe6b79d4-af31-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e...
- sundvor 9y ago
  That's paywalled for me. However going by the title, that's old news as the tax was shot down at the end of the year. https://e24.no/makro-og-politikk/statsbudsjettet-2018/tesla-skatten-vrakes-i-budsjettavtalen/24193659 https://e24.no/makro-og-politikk/statsbudsjettet-2018/tesla-... EU may enforce VAT on the cars, time will tell: https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/politikk/i/nkkxd/Ap-vil-ha-utredet-moms-pa-dyre-el-biler-Regjeringen-far-neppe-igjennom-okt-engangsavgift https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/politikk/i/nkkxd/Ap-vil-ha-... We'll see how that goes. Fun fact: Norwegians don't like EU telling them what to do. (I'm a Norwegian, moved to Australia nearly 2 decades ago).
  - olivermarks 9y ago
    They re not sure when to reduce the tax but sales have gone down anyway, probably in anticipation of changes 'Norway has been hugely successful in introducing electric cars and aims to sell only zero-emission new vehicles by 2025. But critics argue that their popularity is mostly down to an extremely generous set of subsidies that can cut the price of the most expensive Teslas by about NKr450,000. When and how to withdraw those subsidies has sparked a huge political debate. Some Norwegian politicians point out that many of the early adopters of electric cars were rich households buying Teslas. Bus drivers in the richest parts of Oslo complain that bus lanes are clogged with electric cars, which are permitted to use them'.
    - seanmcdirmid 9y ago
      Uhm, it is not exactly subsidies in Norway, but a reduction in a very high tax for EVs, making them comparatively more affordable than ICEs.
      - sundvor 9y ago
        Yep. EVs are both exempt of MVA (GST/VAT) tax and registration fee, whereas combustion engines vehicles (CVs?) are most definitely not. Thus EVs are thus cheap or at least affordable by function of contrast.

olivermarks 9y ago

https://www.ft.com/content/fe6b79d4-af31-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e130 https://www.ft.com/content/fe6b79d4-af31-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e...

sundvor 9y ago
That's paywalled for me. However going by the title, that's old news as the tax was shot down at the end of the year. https://e24.no/makro-og-politikk/statsbudsjettet-2018/tesla-skatten-vrakes-i-budsjettavtalen/24193659 https://e24.no/makro-og-politikk/statsbudsjettet-2018/tesla-... EU may enforce VAT on the cars, time will tell: https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/politikk/i/nkkxd/Ap-vil-ha-utredet-moms-pa-dyre-el-biler-Regjeringen-far-neppe-igjennom-okt-engangsavgift https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/politikk/i/nkkxd/Ap-vil-ha-... We'll see how that goes. Fun fact: Norwegians don't like EU telling them what to do. (I'm a Norwegian, moved to Australia nearly 2 decades ago).
- olivermarks 9y ago
  They re not sure when to reduce the tax but sales have gone down anyway, probably in anticipation of changes 'Norway has been hugely successful in introducing electric cars and aims to sell only zero-emission new vehicles by 2025. But critics argue that their popularity is mostly down to an extremely generous set of subsidies that can cut the price of the most expensive Teslas by about NKr450,000. When and how to withdraw those subsidies has sparked a huge political debate. Some Norwegian politicians point out that many of the early adopters of electric cars were rich households buying Teslas. Bus drivers in the richest parts of Oslo complain that bus lanes are clogged with electric cars, which are permitted to use them'.
  - seanmcdirmid 9y ago
    Uhm, it is not exactly subsidies in Norway, but a reduction in a very high tax for EVs, making them comparatively more affordable than ICEs.
    - sundvor 9y ago
      Yep. EVs are both exempt of MVA (GST/VAT) tax and registration fee, whereas combustion engines vehicles (CVs?) are most definitely not. Thus EVs are thus cheap or at least affordable by function of contrast.