I thought that France was doing decently with almost 25% EV sales (counting true hybrids) In January 2024. In Norway, over 90% of the private vehicles sold in January were EVs.
NINETY PERCENT. Total proportion of EVs now on Norway's roads: one-quarter. And they don't have EV purchase subsidies. Well, not exactly. They tax ICEVs heavily, but not EVs. It works. "Norway is perhaps an unlikely country to revolutionise transportation. How has it managed to get so far ahead? "Simple answer: good tax policies," says Christina Bu, the secretary general of the Norwegian EV Association, the world´s largest EV club, with more than 120,000 members." *** "Because Norway´s proportional, multi-party system often produces coalition and minority governments, emissions haven´t become politicised, as they have in other countries - there is enthusiasm for EVs across the spectrum. The target of making all new cars zero emissions by 2025 was supported by all parties." *** [Norway's electricity is] almost entirely from renewable sources, of which about 10% is wind. The rest comes from hydroelectric plants (the country´s steep valleys and rivers lend themselves to hydro). Nygaard says: 'The arguments for zero-emission transport are perhaps a bit easier to communicate in Norway, because we are already based on renewable energy.'" Full story: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/12/how-did-norway-become- the-electric-car-superpower-oil-money-civil-disobedience-and-morten-from-a- ha shortcut: https://v.gd/HBFv3F David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = One of the problems with modern society is that it places more importance on things that have a price than on things that have a value. -- Pablo Fajardo = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
