Norway is set to become the first country to fully transition to electric vehicles
Norway is set to become the first country to fully transition to electric vehicles
Norway's electric vehicle sales have increased from less than 1% of total auto sales in 2010 to a whopping 88.9% last year.
Summary
Norway is on track to become the first country to eliminate gasoline and diesel cars from new car sales, with EVs making up over 96% of recent purchases.
Decades of incentives, including tax breaks and infrastructure investments, have driven this shift.
Officials see EV adoption as a “new normal” and aim for electric city buses by 2025.
While other countries lag behind, Norway's success demonstrates the potential for widespread EV adoption.
Norway progresses while the USA regresses going full fucking 3rd World with Orange Nero.
Just give us 10 years and we'll be right there with you.
Really? Nor Way!
(sorry for the terrible joke lol)
it's very cool to not drive in that country because you don't need to and you wouldn't because you're not fat
I remember using Google Street View in Norway, every single corner you turn...there's an EV!
and, shocker, it was even less than "less than 1%" before electric cars were invented!
electric cars were invented in the 1830s.. They're literally older than gas vehicles.
While other countries lag behind, Norway's success demonstrates the potential for widespread EV adoption.
Decades of incentives, including tax breaks and infrastructure investments, have driven this shift.
Basically, if your government really wants it and doesn’t give in to lobbying then they can do it.
It’s many years of concerted effort with successive administrations keeping up the commitment.
Our 2024 figure for % of new cars being electric was 19.6% in the UK so I’d be very surprised if we hit the 2030 target of 80% new cars sold being zero emission.
Geology and geography are also helping a lot.
Norway is also a very wealthy nation, which thanks to its huge oil and gas exports, has a sovereign wealth fund worth more than $1.7tn (£1.3tn). This means it can more easily afford big infrastructure-build projects, and absorb the loss of tax revenue from the sale of petrol and diesel cars and their fuel.
The country also has an abundance of renewable hydro electricity, which accounts for 88% of its production capacity. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo
If you think we actually invest in infrastructure, you are sorely mistaken.... I mean yes, we have a decent charging infrastructure. Driven by Tesla purchase and gas stations following through in order to retain EV customers. So some infrastructure is needed to support that.
But we don't even have good enough infrastructure to distribute an abundance of hydro electricity from North to the South, while at the same time we export electricity down to central Europe from the South, so prices fluctuates a crap ton.
Don't get me started on train lines being neglected for the past 50 years. And as most countries we are realising that all our sewage and water lines need a massive renewal....
Maybe we should use more of the oil fund for these tasks, but I believe there would be large inflations if we tossed the oil fund around to fix everything....
Has no one told them that EVs don't work when it's cold?
/s
Norway: don't get high on your own supply...
Meanwhile our Premier just floated the idea to delay the ban on gas car sales... Fun how a new president in the neighboring country makes us give up on our emission goals...
But did they stopped exporting oil and gas? /s
Crude oil and natural gas amount to 62% of the total value of Norway’s exports of goods in 2023.
https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/production-and-exports/exports-of-oil-and-gas/
Norway selling their trash
Norways crude oil product amount to less than 2.5% of the global production.
People don't seem to complain as much about the US who produces just over 16%, or Russia at about 14%.
They do complain a lot about Saudi Arabia who are also at 14%
But that's emissions outside of our environment so that's fine, no worries.
Please Europe keep buying our natural gas at record prices.
Why the /s when it's clearly not sarcasm?
Norway... Who's primary exports are crude oil and petroleum gas.
Also Norway is cold and EVs do not do well in the cold. Especially with current battery technology.
This thread is so fucking funny. Its not like we started driving EV's in Norway this fall, and then in winter they all stopped working . I am telling my EV it's not working, but god dammit, it just won't listen to me.
Also Norway is cold and EVs do not do well in the cold. Especially with current battery technology.
HOLY SHIT WHY HAS NOBODY SAID THIS BEFORE OR ADDRESSED IT IN ANY WAY!!!!!
They work fine in the cold. This old, blatantly wrong, myth needs to die soon.
Source: we use them every damn day all year, including winter.
Sincerely A Norwegian with an EV daily driver.Charging lithium batteries below a certain temperature is very bad for them.
It also reduces capacity and charge cycles significantly.
Yes they still technically function, but they wear out much faster and output much less as you go colder.
That means you need to replace the batteries much more often.
The batteries are the least environmentally friendly part of the whole EV.
Rightttt, if only we had literal millions of these cars work in freezing temps. They're better in cold that ice cars.