The incentives (no purchase tax, cheaper road tolls, can use the bus lane) have been great at boosting adoption. It has had it's own problems, though. The incen

The incentives (no purchase tax, cheaper road tolls, can use the bus lane) have been great at boosting adoption. It has had it's own problems, though. The incentives have mainly been beneficial to the affluent who already had money to buy expensive cars, saving them money and letting them get ahead of traffic. There are now so many electric cars, and have been for a few years, that buses are getting blocked in their own lanes. And the incentives have resulted in buying lots of new cars, and people driving as much as before, instead of doing things that could help much more. The quote from our former PM sums it up nicely: “It is the most important thing you can do personally and privately to help reduce climate emissions.” Yeah, increased consumption is surely the way to reduce your footprint! The EV subsidies cost about 40 billion NOK in 2022. Think what that money could have done for public transport! And it's quite ironic that if I buy an EV, I pay no tax, but for a bike or e-bike I pay 25%.