Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’ | Nordic country, paradoxically a major oil producer, has set target for all new cars sold to be zero emission
Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’ | Nordic country, paradoxically a major oil producer, has set target for all new cars sold to be zero emission
Nordic country, paradoxically a major oil producer, has set target for all new cars sold to be zero emission
That’s where their welfare money comes from. If they’re burning it at home they can’t sell it abroad.
Can any Norwegians say which models of cars are being bought there? And any info on infrastructure and electric rates, etc. are affecting adoption of EV?
The biggest driver of sales is undoubtedly the tax break: For EVs the VAT (sales tax) of 25 percent is dropped for the first 500k NOK of the car’s price (~50k USD).
Last month, 94.2 percent of all sold (registered) cars were BEVs (so hybrids not included). The top two models were Tesla Model Y and Volvo EX30.
Charging infrastructure is great, and omnipresent. The price of electricity has actually gone up quite a bit the last couple of years, but gas/petrol and diesel is still quite a bit more expensive (think ~8 USD/gallon)
It is easy for the Nordic countries to proclaim themselves "green" while exploiting the natural resources of capitalism's periphery, the global south, and polluting their land.