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Not arguing with the comment ranking. ;-) However, I don't think electric cars are "mainstream", outside of a small slice of people, which probably overlaps pr
by reubenswartz 9y ago
Not arguing with the comment ranking. ;-)
However, I don't think electric cars are "mainstream", outside of a small slice of people, which probably overlaps pretty well with HN. ;) They have great mindshare thanks to Tesla's marketing (and because they're pretty damn good cars), but they're a blip in terms of overall car sales volume unless you filter by really high end sedans and SUVs.
- adrianN 9y agoIn Norway 40% of the sold cars are plug-in electric.
- ptaipale 9y agoThat number appears to include plug-in hybrids. In January and February this year, 4324 electric cars were registered [1]. Total registration number for this period was 24199 [2]. That would be 18 % electric. There's been a large subsidy to electric cars which is effectively a subsidy to rich people... [1] http://www.ssb.no/en/transport-og-reiseliv/artikler-og-publikasjoner/over-140-000-electric-cars-in-norway http://www.ssb.no/en/transport-og-reiseliv/artikler-og-publi...
- greedo 9y agoThis gets trotted out all the time. Norway is a very small country, in terms of population and GDP. Approximately 5 million people. Car ownership is about 58%, so roughly 3 million cars on the road. This is a nit, an infinitesimal number of cars. It's like using Arizona as an example. Same general population and GDP.
- pathseeker 9y agoNorway is a very small slice of rich people. Not mainstream by any means.