The average salary is close to the equivalent of $55000 and median is a bit over $50000, that helps. The fossils are also taxed heavily, the Audi Q7 for instan

The average salary is close to the equivalent of $55000 and median is a bit over $50000, that helps. The fossils are also taxed heavily, the Audi Q7 for instance starts at over 1.1 million NOK, the Model Y starts at 550k or so. In comparison I bought my previous car (Toyota Avensis with 150 hp engine) in 2011 for 400k NOK. Then you have the fuel costs which is at around 16-18 NOK/liter, which comes out to about $7-8/us gallon and electricity is about 1 NOK/kWh. For an efficient fossil (5 liter/100km) it costs 1.5 NOK/km in fuel costs, the same for an EV is 0.25 NOK/km when charging at home depending on the efficiency. My ioniq costs even less. I drive a Model X (with a refresh X on order) and a classic ioniq electric myself, buying a new fossil here is just dumb at this point.