At least she has the benefit of a ChaDeMo Level3 charger 10km north of her home - and almost right on her route. There's another on in Oslo, too. Positively pampered! MW
On 26 Dec 2013, at 17:39, Thos True wrote: > Martin, > > Probably for same reason that my wife gets concerned while driving our Leaf > on a 60 mile drive...“rekkeviddeangst” or “range anxiety”! > Clearly unfounded in both cases, yet even after dozens of such trips, they > still experience the anxiety. Not sure how to overcome this, other than to > have as many DCQC units out there as we petrol stations (1 every 2 or 3 > miles here in the states!). > > -Tom > > -Tom > > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Martin WINLOW <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. 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