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The article fails to mention a bunch of other benefits of owning an electric in Norway: - No annual road tax and virtually no sales tax - You're allowed to dr

The article fails to mention a bunch of other benefits of owning an electric in Norway: - No annual road tax and virtually no sales tax - You're allowed to drive in the bus lane which is huge for suburb communters. - Free communal parking - Free passage through tolls and ferries - Free charging at communal charging stations (they're everywhere in Oslo)

akavel 13y ago
Quoting a fragment: "Electric cars have been especially popular in Norway because of generous subsidies, free parking, government-provided re-charging stations, the right to use express lanes on highways and exemptions from tolls." or wasn't that fragment there earlier?
thomasfl 13y ago
Besides: - Norway has the highest taxes anywhere on buying and using gas cars. Horsepower and weight is taxed heavily. - Urban sprawl around the biggest cities has created some of Europe's worst traffic congestions. It's a huge benefit to be able to use the bus lane. Teslas high market share in Norway is also a symptom of some of the challenges we face here in Norway.
- vidarh 13y ago
  I find the idea of "urban sprawl" in Norway hilarious.... I'm from Oslo, but live in a London suburb that is larger than the "urban sprawl" around Oslo. Norwegians for the most part has no idea what proper congestion looks like.
  - davedx 13y ago
    Yeah, when I visited Oslo we walked at a leisurely stroll from Maridalsvannet just outside the city back to our city centre hostel in a couple of hours (me, my sister and my 60 yo mother). In about the same time in London I can get from the Thames to Tufnell Park, not even close to the North Circular :) Of course, many of the world's capitals pale in comparison to cities like London or NYC...
  - freehunter 13y ago
    Go onto Google Maps and look up Dallas, Texas. I've only driven through it once, but that will stick with me forever.
jccooper 13y ago
Nice benefits. At what point in market share does that all get taken away? Surely the whole population cant go on the bus lanes.

akavel 13y ago

Quoting a fragment: "Electric cars have been especially popular in Norway because of generous subsidies, free parking, government-provided re-charging stations, the right to use express lanes on highways and exemptions from tolls." or wasn't that fragment there earlier?

thomasfl 13y ago

Besides: - Norway has the highest taxes anywhere on buying and using gas cars. Horsepower and weight is taxed heavily. - Urban sprawl around the biggest cities has created some of Europe's worst traffic congestions. It's a huge benefit to be able to use the bus lane. Teslas high market share in Norway is also a symptom of some of the challenges we face here in Norway.

vidarh 13y ago
I find the idea of "urban sprawl" in Norway hilarious.... I'm from Oslo, but live in a London suburb that is larger than the "urban sprawl" around Oslo. Norwegians for the most part has no idea what proper congestion looks like.
- davedx 13y ago
  Yeah, when I visited Oslo we walked at a leisurely stroll from Maridalsvannet just outside the city back to our city centre hostel in a couple of hours (me, my sister and my 60 yo mother). In about the same time in London I can get from the Thames to Tufnell Park, not even close to the North Circular :) Of course, many of the world's capitals pale in comparison to cities like London or NYC...
- freehunter 13y ago
  Go onto Google Maps and look up Dallas, Texas. I've only driven through it once, but that will stick with me forever.

jccooper 13y ago

Nice benefits. At what point in market share does that all get taken away? Surely the whole population cant go on the bus lanes.