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Originally Posted by Southwest737
1) Norway Is the Only Country Where the Majority of Car Sales are All-Electric
Norway is one of the coldest regions in the world and is crisscrossed by fjords that make some areas difficult to access. Given concerns that EV batteries don’t run effectively in low temperatures and don’t have as long a range as gasoline vehicles, one would expect that Norway would be one of the last regions to adopt EVs. To the contrary, Norway and its Scandinavian neighbors such as Iceland and Sweden are far and away the leaders in EV adoption. Eight out of 10 passenger car sales in Norway were all-electric vehicles in 2022, with 150,000 sold in total.
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Due to huge Norwegian government subsidies, no sales tax on an EV (can be around $27,000), no tolls, free parking, free ferry rides over the fjords. This has been taken advantage of by wealthy people in the cities. Norway is now retrenching, at the least because the policies have been severly criticized for expanding income inequality, but also because the EVs are not affecting climate change & the mining for minerals is so harmful. Like here, EVs are currently a rich man's car.