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It has the highest EV penetration in the world. Nearly every single new car sold is an EV. It's therefore a great indicator about how various EVs will fare on a
by sundvor 4y ago
It has the highest EV penetration in the world. Nearly every single new car sold is an EV. It's therefore a great indicator about how various EVs will fare on a greater scale, perhaps.
- swexbe 4y agoNorway is extremely wealthy. This undoubtedly skews the results by a lot. It's a bit like extrapolating that the next big consumer car-brand is Ferrari based on your trip to Monaco.
- mym1990 4y agoPerhaps. The USA EV market outpaces Norway by a pretty large margin, and Tesla leads the US EV market in a similar way to Norway, I guess it depends on what data point is being looked for specifically. Relatively speaking Norway is a pretty tiny market to make large scale indications off of.
- sundvor 4y agoUSA has nothing on Norway in % of vehicles sold being EVs. Norway's population is a fraction of USA's, so of course USA will have the raw numbers. However, Norway's new car BEV % is 80%. The remainder is split between hybrids and pure fossil.
- HWR_14 4y agoNorway started buying EVs when Tesla was the only game in town. Of course they have a lot of Teslas. It seems like a bad idea to expect that experience to generalize now that there are more options.