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Be a rich country, have a 25% tax on cars, discount that to 0% for the first ~$50,000 of EVs, be small so electric infrastructure is easy. Have good public tran
by colechristensen 3y ago
Be a rich country, have a 25% tax on cars, discount that to 0% for the first ~$50,000 of EVs, be small so electric infrastructure is easy. Have good public transit so if you’re poor you don’t need a car.
- arcade79 3y agoNorway is not small (distance-wise). But we do have electricity production pretty well spread out as we're a mountainous country with plenty of hydropower throughout the entire country.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoThe last line is probably only true for oslo. Its a big country with a low population density so I expect most poor rural areas don’t have much to offer. That being said if you are poor you aren’t buying new cars anyhow.
- audunw 3y agoElectric infrastructure is not easy in Norway. You know it’s very mountainous.. right? But Norway does have the benefit that it has relied on electricity for much of its heating for a long time. So the added load of EVs is not huge relatively speaking. Though the surprising thing is just how easy it has been. There’s no reason to think it’d be insurmountable for other countries. We have the same rules of physics here.
- pytonslange 3y agoIt was actually much better than that. The 25% is just the VAT. In addition there is a tax on new cars (fossil and hybrid) with elements for weight, emissions, and before 2017 also power. EVs were initially excempt all taxes, meaning you pretty much get more than twice as much car when chosing an EV. Combine that with no charge for EVs on toll roads (which are abundant here), rather expensive fossil fuels and cheap electricity, and you get a lot of EVs on the road. Great for the local environment, maybe not so great for the climate.