Nearly 80% of Norway's new car sales are electric

[PoliticAverse]

2. "Norway - the EV capital of the world"

From: https://www.visitnorway.com/plan-your-trip/getting-around/by-car/electric-cars/

“In 2020, 54 per cent of the new cars that were sold in Norway were EVs. And it is important to note that when we talk about EVs, we mean fully electric cars. Plug-in hybrids aren’t part of that number. If we included those like they do in many other countries, we would get to a whopping 74 per cent!” says Christina Bu, secretary general of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association.

But why? The political goal is for the whole of the Norwegian car fleet to be zero-emission (electric or hydrogen) by 2025. Which means that there are all sorts of incentives to get people to go green: purchase subsidies, cheaper parking, tolls and ferry tickets, and access to bus and taxi lanes.

“But the maybe strongest incentive is that we heavily tax the purchase of polluting petrol and diesel cars”, Bu explains.

No wonder, then, that no other country in the world has more electric vehicles per capita.

Secondly, electric cars are cool! They don’t smell bad. They are silent. And you can drive them for several hundred kilometres before you need to charge them. Not that charging is a problem in Norway – we have more than 16,000 charging stations, including 3,300 fast chargers, all over the country. So no need for range anxiety.

Note that Norway gets most of its electricity from hydroelectric generation.