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Zorro

(16,470 posts) Sun Dec 1, 2024, 06:33 PM Dec 1

This Is What the World's First All-EV Car Market Looks Like

In Norway, Toyota Motor Corp. is going from one electric-powered model to five to better compete with Tesla Inc., fuel stations are ripping out pumps to make space for chargers, and even nursing homes in the rural interior have switched to battery-powered cars despite months of arctic cold.

All are signs of the dramatic shift that has put the Nordic country on the cusp of becoming the first market in the world to all but eliminate sales of new combustion-powered cars.

“It’s cold here, there are mountains, long distances to drive,” Yngve Slyngstad, the former head of Norway’s $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund, said on the way to his electric car in downtown Oslo. “There are so many reasons EVs shouldn’t have been a success here, and yet we’ve done it.”

It’s a transition that happened with remarkable speed. While there have long been incentives to encourage EV purchases — mainly to promote short-lived domestic upstarts — adoption only started to accelerate in recent years, as a greater variety of cars became available. Once an inflection point was reached, the ramp-up was rapid.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-ev-market-norway/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczMzA5NTk0NCwiZXhwIjoxNzMzNzAwNzQ0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTTk9MNDVEV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNjgyQTUwQzJCRDM0MTFCQTgwQjEwQjZEQjczQzM1MSJ9.sl9iuziqHYApURFnP4RSd1-m6g2lGo2LrEhgnZ2T7vA

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This Is What the World's First All-EV Car Market Looks Like (Original Post) Zorro Dec 1 OP

I'm all for addressing the environmental crisis, snot Dec 1 #1

Norway has long and mountainous distances too LearnedHand Dec 1 #2

Unfortunately snot Dec 3 #3

Oh clearly! LearnedHand Dec 3 #4

snot

(10,798 posts)

1. I'm all for addressing the environmental crisis,

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sun Dec 1, 2024, 06:40 PM

Dec 1

but I have to say, the idea that we can all rely on EV's is, to put it kindly, way ahead of its time. At least in my part of the country, where things are relatively spread out, an EV is practicable only for those households that have a garage and two cars.

I do hope to get a hybrid next time around.

LearnedHand

(4,221 posts)

2. Norway has long and mountainous distances too

Reply to snot (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 1, 2024, 08:18 PM

Dec 1

The difference is they created the infrastructure readily, strategically for EVs and the EVs just followed. It's amazing to see the vast number of EVs in their city centers.

snot

(10,798 posts)

3. Unfortunately

Reply to LearnedHand (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 3, 2024, 07:10 PM

Dec 3

(or deliberately?), our leaders seem obtuse to the possibility of examining and learning from other countries' successes.

LearnedHand

(4,221 posts)

4. Oh clearly!

Reply to snot (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 3, 2024, 07:14 PM

Dec 3

The US has to go its own way on everything instead of learning from others' successes.

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