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EVs at 93.9% Share in Norway – Record High
- boeingUH60 3y agoNorway is the wise drug (oil) dealer that refused to get high on its own supply...kudos I guess
- bhpm 3y agoThe less you use the more you can sell.
- Moldoteck 3y agoFascinating considering most ev incentives were cancelled. Even more fascinating that they started improving bike&pub transport infra too
- mikestew 3y agoFascinating considering most ev incentives were cancelled 2nd sentence of TFA: “All non-BEV powertrains faced higher taxes from January 1st” (Granted, you did say “most…incentives”.)
- ta1243 3y agoThat's fine in Norway where it never gets cold, but in countries where it snows EV can't work because of the battery life /s
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoTechnically Norway should be much colder on level of Canada cold. They aren't because Gulf stream. Same for UK, which usually does not even have winter like Southern Europe, just endless autumn.
- ijlx 3y agoInterestingly, per another article I read on HN a couple weeks ago, it may not be due to the gulf stream: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-europes-mild-climate https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-euro...
- gizajob 3y agoSorry, are you from the UK? Which part of southern Europe are you referring to? I can appreciate that the UK is milder than it should be, but it definitely gets winter compared to southern Europe, particularly the darkness. It even snowed here a couple of weeks ago. Melbourne, Australia would be a good example of your “6 months of autumn” idea.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoI am from central Europe, lived in UK for 4 years and moved to southern Europe. I can say that in UK there is no real winter. Just autumn. Same like southern Europe. Only difference is less fog.
- lm28469 3y agoMost of the population is in the south and it really isn't that cold My hometown in central/eastern France has about the same climate as Oslo, northern cities on the coast have even warmer climates in winter
- ffgjgf1 3y agoOslo doesn’t really get that cold in winter and other coastal cities further out west even less so. e.g. the avg. low temperature in Bergen is 0 degrees in Jan and Feb.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoFraction of new registrations in January; as a fraction of the fleet it was 25% in 2022 [1]. (It’s about 1% in America [2].) I’m curious to see at what point the cost of operating an ICE vehicle accelerates upwards, as the economies of scale which support fuelling and maintaining them fails. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_Norway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in... [2] https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/percentage-of-electric-cars-in-us.html https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/percentage-of-...
- sneed_chucker 3y agoImpressive, but also the country has fewer people than NYC.
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- matthewdgreen 3y agoNorway is basically a test case. They're a rich country that can afford to subsidize BEVs and penalize ICE, so they're deploying first. This gives the rest of the world a demonstration that large-scale nationwide vehicle electrification is completely feasible, even in a harsh climate. (It's not a perfect test case, because there are some differences that make EVs a little easier in Norway and also a little more challenging, such as the cold weather.) It's good to have a test case, since improving BEV economics are going to eventually make them dominant almost everywhere.
- dangus 3y agoMost new car buyers in Europe are already paying more than the cost of a BYD Dolphin. It’s really not about subsidy anymore. Taxing ICE cars is something many countries can just go ahead and do without very many negative consequences if you ask me.
- thelastgallon 3y agoThere is no penalizing ICE. Fossil fuels subsidies are $7 trillion/year: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022 If fossil fuels are not subsidized, 100% of car sales will be EVs.
- thelastgallon 3y agoI don't understand the downvotes.
- CogitoCogito 3y agoDoes that make the achievement easier?
- erik_seaberg 3y agoIt probably helps that Norway has 79% homeowners which should make the street parking problem less acute.
- gigel82 3y agoNonsense, there is clear evidence that EVs are just a fading fad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39150849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39150849 /s