The Majority Of New Cars Sold In Norway Are Now Electrified
While proposals from governments around the world to ban the sale of purely petrol-powered cars by certain dates look in many cases unrealistic, one country might actually hit its target. We’re talking about Norway, where the intention is for all cars sold from 2025 onwards to be zero-emissions. In 2017, the nation passed an important milestone: hybrids and full electric vehicles accounted for the majority of new car registrations.
Well, just: they accounted for 52 per cent of sales, but that’s a huge increase on 2016, when purely diesel or petrol-powered cars still made up 60 per cent of registrations.
It’s thanks in no small part to wide-ranging electric car incentives from the Norwegian government, including tax exemptions, free parking, free road tolls and free use of ferries. The country has also heavily invested in charging infrastructure, making hybrid and EV ownership much less of a hassle.
It’s also worth pointing out that the majority of electricity in the country is generated from hydropower, making the environmental benefits of running an EV much greater.
Of course, Norway can afford to do all this - its sovereign wealth fund of $1 trillion is the largest in the world, after all. In other words, it’s not a model other nations can easily follow.
Source: Reuters
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Did someone say $1 trillion??
Yes
Ironically it is all money made from oil, so we are using our profits from oil to fund environmental friendly solutions
Why make trillions when we can make . . . billions?
Glad to see this. If Norway can do it, why can’t the other countries do so? C’mon more fuel for car guys, less noise on the streets, less emmisions, it’s a win for everybody
Just one thing: keep in mind that most of energy in Norway is from hydropower, windpower etc… So electric cars are indeed ecological
In countries such as the UK, most of energy comes from fossils
So maybe rather than focusing on penalising ICE, they first could focus on sustainable energy sources…
Yeah lets build heaps of Nuclear plants to power all those electric car!
Did you not read the article in full? Norway is a rich ass country that can afford to do it. 98% of other countries can’t
A kid, riding his bike in his neighborhood. Just goin down the street. An electric car pulls out of their driveway and hits the kid, because it’s silent.
Tesla S costs 22820 Euro less in Norway than in The Netherlands. Subsidized by Norway government with profit out of oil sales.
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Go Norway!!
sighs . . . there’s no going back from this, is there?
I’m afraid not. It’s picked up too much steam at this point. Er, electricity, to be period correct.
Too bad none if the money for the subsidies came from our “oil fund” (that’s what we call it). This is all made possible by taxing petrol and diesel cars heavily, and practically forcing us over to electric cars. Thing is, there are so many electric cars now that they are going to reduce the subsidies for them soon because they still need to make money from road taxes, tolls and such. Also the roads in Norway are some of the worst quality roads in the world.
Some people can’t undertand ‘Electrified Cars’ aren’t “Electric Cars”!
‘Electrified Cars’ all the hybrids (mild, soft, etc.)
That could be whale heavy 2t+ X5s, Range Rovers, Volvos with huge combustion engines up to 5 liters
So once again: NOT ELECTRIC CARS
Some people can’t understand ‘Electrified Cars’ aren’t “Electric Cars”!
‘Electrified Cars’ all the hybrids (mild, soft, etc.)
That could be any whale heavy 2+ tons X5s, Range Rovers, Volvos with huge combustion engines up to 5 liters!
So once again: NOT ELECTRIC CARS
Nope sorry no electric for me