> Give me the hydro power of Norway and I will make any country all-electric. Fun fact: the consumer taxes on electricity is higher than the taxes on gasoline

> Give me the hydro power of Norway and I will make any country all-electric. Fun fact: the consumer taxes on electricity is higher than the taxes on gasoline (the tax percentage, not the total amount paid). It's more efficient to burn oil in a oil power plant than to make gasoline and burn it in an ICE engine. So EVs make economic sense in the long term for any country. It's just the inertia of the existing energy infrastructures holding back the transition. > but people must stop putting pressure on others Many countries and individuals are making a bunch of terrible excuses for why they're not transitioning to EVs, which makes absolutely no sense at all given what Norway has achieved. Norway is not THAT special. It's certainly not an ideal country for EVs. The cities there DO have apartments without off-street parking. The winter is brutal on range. Norwegians loves to drive hours and hours up to their mountain cabins in winter to ski - often with a huge ski box on top that create a lot of drag. Or they drive far down the European continent in summer, as far as Croatia for instance (to the Americans out there: Norway is part of Schengen. You can drive/travel freely anywhere in Europe without passport control) And it makes even less sense for a country that does not have its own oil and fuel production to be dependent on ICE cars. EVs grants a path to full energy independence. ICE does not. Of course other countries will and can not move quite as fast as Norway. The conditions are different. That goes without saying. Nobody is blaming other countries for being behind. But that's not an excuse for doing little-to-nothing to push the transition forwards.