Hmmm... Ms Blomberg lives in As (according to her Facebook page) which lies 30km to the south of central Oslo. Given that the range of the C-Zero (Ciroen re-badged Mitsubishi i-Miev) is a good 100km (EPA... or 160km on the Japanese equivalent) I am puzzled why she is so distraught.
MW On 26 Dec 2013, at 12:08, brucedp5 wrote: > > > http://qz.com/159595/norway-electric-cars/ > Norway is starting to have more electric cars than it can handle > By Leo Mirani December 20, 2013 > > [image > http://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/oslo.jpg > You have to wake up pretty early in the morning to get a charging spot. > Reuters/Alister Doyle > ] > > When Hilde Charlotte Blomberg reached the University of Oslo last Friday, > the first thing she did was to send a mass email to the Department of > Informatics: > > I arrived at work now and all the spaces for electric cars are taken. If > you think your car is charged, I would appreciate if you could park > somewhere else. I won’t get home if I can’t charge my car. I am standing > downstairs and waiting and hoping that someone will come > > Blomberg drives a Citroen C-Zero. Hers is one of 15,000 electric cars on the > roads of Norway. That’s up from around 10,000 last year and just 6,000 in > 2011. Yet the very things that made it so attractive to buy an electric car > are now under pressure. Two incentives in particular have become victims of > their own success: the ability to drive in bus lanes and free public > charging spots. > > More cars than buses > > According to Budstikka (link in Norwegian), a local newspaper for the rich > suburbs outside Oslo where the majority of electric cars are sold, electric > vehicles now dominate the bus lanes into Oslo. During rush hour on Dec. 3, > they made up 75% of the 829 vehicles that drove on the bus lane. After > accounting for taxis, two-wheelers and mini-buses, all of which have the > right to use the lane, buses made up only 7.5% of the traffic in the lane. > According to the paper, bus lanes can handle only about 1,000 vehicles per > hour because of the many entries, exits and bus stops. > > Charging facilities are also over-subscribed. The total number of public > charging facilities in Norway is only 5,000. Oslo, the capital, has a mere > 500, says Bjørn Gjestvang, an automotive industry expert at KPMG Norway. > Private businesses have their own facilities, but those too are filling up > quickly. Blomberg’s department, for instance, has six charging spots but on > a normal day five of those will be occupied. > > The (gridlocked) road ahead > > Things are only going to get worse. Car manufacturers have cottoned on to > the popularity of electric cars in Norway and they’re piling in. Tesla > entered the market this year and has been wildly successful. Volkswagen’s > e-Up went on sale in November and it is also coming out with an electric > version of the perennially popular Golf. BMW’s i3 will hit the roads next > year. > > Norway is due to reconsider its incentive structure for electric cars in > 2017. Neither the ministry of the environment nor the ministry of transport > and communications responded to requests for comment, but watchers of > electric-car trends in Norway suggest that the growing number of electric > cars could very well lead to some sort of rationalization of incentives. “I > am afraid that within one year this problem will be so big that the > government will be forced to change the rules,” says Bjart Holtsmark of > Statistics Norway. > > Meanwhile, electric cars—and the anxieties that come with them—have become > part of the Norwegian psyche. Second place on a list of words of the year > (link in Norwegian) produced by Norway’s Language Council this year was > “rekkeviddeangst” or “range anxiety”: The fear that your electric car > battery will run out before you make it to a charging station. > [© http://qz.com] > > > > > For all EVLN posts use: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date > > Here are today's archive-only EV posts: > > EVLN: Cities can save big money by switching to EVs > EVLN: OpConnect keeps U.S. Navy EVs Charged > EVLN: Vending machine dispenses Chinese Kandi @$3.25hr r:75mi ts:50mph > EVLN: China Tesla website and dealership are up, and taking pre-orders > + > EVLN: Why Do EVs have 12V PbSO4 Aux Batts When Li-ion Is Available? > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-EVs-dominate-the-bus-lanes-into-Oslo-no-more-EVs-than-EVSE-tp4666906.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
