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Thankfully they are often better. 95% of new car sales are EVs in my area. It took a few years to get there, people don't necessarily know immediately what the
by speedgoose 2y ago
Thankfully they are often better. 95% of new car sales are EVs in my area.
It took a few years to get there, people don't necessarily know immediately what they like best.
https://elbilstatistikk.no/ https://elbilstatistikk.no/
- closewith 2y agoNorway is an absolute outlier, driven exclusively by tax incentives. In the rest of the EEA, EVs sales are plummeting. https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations-18-3-in-august-2024-bev-market-share-down-by-almost-one-third/ https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations...
- speedgoose 2y agoDo you have a source about “exclusively“?
- itsoktocry 2y agoHave you looked at the taxes versus incentives for EVs vs ICEs in Norway? If you need a new car and one is triple the cost (because the other is exempt from fees) what are you going to buy? But yeah, it's for the environment, surely. Reverse the policy and see what happens.
- speedgoose 2y agoI agree it's a strong incentive, but I'm not sure it's the only one. One example was during the cold wave last winter. ICE owners struggled quite a bit more than EV owners. You also have the problem that ICE vehicles are quite slow and laggy, unless you spend a lot of money on performance ICE vehicles but then they usually tend to be loud and uncomfortable.