EVs outsould fossil fuel powered cars in Norway

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For the first time in history electric cars made up 58.4% of new cars sold in Norway in March.

“Norway shows the whole world that the electric car can replace cars powered by gasoline and diesel and be an important contribution in the fight to reduce C02 emissions,” - Christina Bu, the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association’s general secretary.

Norway’s Parliament has voted to require that all new cars sold in the Scandinavian country be electric by 2025.
Norway waived hefty vehicle import duties and registration and sales taxes for buyers of electric cars to boost sales. Owners don’t pay road tolls and use bus lanes in congested city centers.



EVs are good, if the infrastructure is there, and it is certainly there in Norway where on average 95% of the power production comes from hydroelectric plants. But in countries still relying on coal or other non-green electricity sources, EVs won't solve emissions problems. But it might help to keep city centers clean.
 
What do you know, you punish ICE cars with import duties, extra taxes etc etc, and heavily subsidize EV's and then mandate all new cars be EV by 2025, and they actually sell, what a shock. :rolleyes:

It mostly however had to do with large delivery (finally) of lots of Tesla's ordered over a large time span, as it's a small country and it doesn't take many car orders to offset this statistic. You also have to consider Norway is fairly oil rich, personal tax rates are sky high, about 40%, with historical average since 1995 of almost 42%. And gas taxes are very high resulting in gas of over $7 a gallon.

No one likes pointing out the dirty details though....
 
What do you know, you punish ICE cars with import duties, extra taxes etc etc, and heavily subsidize EV's and then mandate all new cars be EV by 2025, and they actually sell, what a shock. :rolleyes:

It mostly however had to do with large delivery (finally) of lots of Tesla's ordered over a large time span, as it's a small country and it doesn't take many car orders to offset this statistic. You also have to consider Norway is fairly oil rich, personal tax rates are sky high, about 40%, with historical average since 1995 of almost 42%. And gas taxes are very high resulting in gas of over $7 a gallon.

No one likes pointing out the dirty details though....
Personal tax rate is similar all over europe, gas prices too, I don't see how that is relevant to EVs.
 
What do you know, you punish ICE cars with import duties, extra taxes etc etc, and heavily subsidize EV's and then mandate all new cars be EV by 2025, and they actually sell, what a shock. :rolleyes:

It mostly however had to do with large delivery (finally) of lots of Tesla's ordered over a large time span, as it's a small country and it doesn't take many car orders to offset this statistic. You also have to consider Norway is fairly oil rich, personal tax rates are sky high, about 40%, with historical average since 1995 of almost 42%. And gas taxes are very high resulting in gas of over $7 a gallon.

No one likes pointing out the dirty details though....

WE DID IT!

i'd love an EV but electricity here is prohibitively expensive.
 
Personal tax rate is similar all over europe, gas prices too, I don't see how that is relevant to EVs.

The distinction is that not all of Europe is oil producing, Norway is second largest in Europe for oil production, first being Russia, where gas is $2.50 a gallon. Tax rates have to do with the general subsidy mentally of which EV's are a part of, the link above even shows this. How you don't understand that forced prices on gas and large subsidy given to EV's along with law mandating 100% EV by 2025 doesn't have anything to do with EV's well....I can't help you.

WE DID IT!

i'd love an EV but electricity here is prohibitively expensive.

One of my race buddies was one of the first with the P90D I knew here in Houston, was a really fun car to play with, but he also lives and almost never goes out of the metro area, so perfect fit for him. A bit more time and some more rage and they will start becoming a possible option for me as a second (3rd?) car, but I travel far to much for one to be used as a main car in their current state. But there are whole swaths of people who an EV is a great fit for.
 
Gas tax will be replaced with a Travel Tax soon. You'll go in periodically and pay to have your odometer read and pay a tax on miles since your last reading plus a charge for the pleasure. Or they'll start metering Car chargers. Either way, Taxes dodged with EVs is only a temporary phenomena.
 
The distinction is that not all of Europe is oil producing, Norway is second largest in Europe for oil production, first being Russia, where gas is $2.50 a gallon. Tax rates have to do with the general subsidy mentally of which EV's are a part of, the link above even shows this. How you don't understand that forced prices on gas and large subsidy given to EV's along with law mandating 100% EV by 2025 doesn't have anything to do with EV's well....I can't help you.



One of my race buddies was one of the first with the P90D I knew here in Houston, was a really fun car to play with, but he also lives and almost never goes out of the metro area, so perfect fit for him. A bit more time and some more rage and they will start becoming a possible option for me as a second (3rd?) car, but I travel far to much for one to be used as a main car in their current state. But there are whole swaths of people who an EV is a great fit for.

With a few hundred miles/charge for Tesla's the road trip challenge isn't so much range per se, but that a charge takes a lot longer than pumping a tank of gas. OTOH the next generation chargers should be able to do an ~15 min charge which is finally getting reasonably close.
 
I only have to go like 10 miles if you need to drive somewhere in Norway.

Oh, I'm sorry, I meant 16 kilometres.
From what I can tell, people drive the similar distances when they do drive as in the US, they just drive less often.
 
What do you know, you punish ICE cars with import duties, extra taxes etc etc, and heavily subsidize EV's and then mandate all new cars be EV by 2025, and they actually sell, what a shock. :rolleyes:

It mostly however had to do with large delivery (finally) of lots of Tesla's ordered over a large time span, as it's a small country and it doesn't take many car orders to offset this statistic. You also have to consider Norway is fairly oil rich, personal tax rates are sky high, about 40%, with historical average since 1995 of almost 42%. And gas taxes are very high resulting in gas of over $7 a gallon.

No one likes pointing out the dirty details though....

Yea they sold a whopping 5000 cars last month.

USA - 1,627,481 ... in december
 
What do you know, you punish ICE cars with import duties, extra taxes etc etc, and heavily subsidize EV's and then mandate all new cars be EV by 2025, and they actually sell, what a shock. :rolleyes:

gas taxes are very high resulting in gas of over $7 a gallon.

So small country (i.e. short drives), cheap electricity, heavy subsidies for electric cars, high gas taxes and high import duties on gas cars.
If I could buy an electric car for half the cost of an ICE, and the cost per mile was 1/4 the cost of driving an ICE, then I'd be a fool not to get an electric car, even with the limitations.

However, even with the subsidies here in California, the costs are at best a wash when compared to a hybrid.
Not worth the limitations of an electric car (smaller car, limited range, long charging times, no spare tire, etc.) for the small amount I might save.
 
The distinction is that not all of Europe is oil producing, Norway is second largest in Europe for oil production, first being Russia, where gas is $2.50 a gallon. Tax rates have to do with the general subsidy mentally of which EV's are a part of, the link above even shows this. How you don't understand that forced prices on gas and large subsidy given to EV's along with law mandating 100% EV by 2025 doesn't have anything to do with EV's well....I can't help you.
I said high taxes have nothing to do with EVs. But sure read whatever else into it. If they didn't have 50% EV sales taxes would be the same, as they are everywhere over Europe.
Besides there is a huge difference between a subsidy and a tax break. They are not interchangeable.

People get hung up on 40% tax, and cry wolf but I bet 99% of the people in Norway wouldn't want to live in the US where there is relatively low income tax, but no universal health care, and 20% of the population living under the poverty line for example in California.
 
I said high taxes have nothing to do with EVs. But sure read whatever else into it. If they didn't have 50% EV sales taxes would be the same, as they are everywhere over Europe.
Besides there is a huge difference between a subsidy and a tax break. They are not interchangeable.

People get hung up on 40% tax, and cry wolf but I bet 99% of the people in Norway wouldn't want to live in the US where there is relatively low income tax, but no universal health care, and 20% of the population living under the poverty line for example in California.

Leave it to a euroservant to conflate fake poverty definition with tax rates. The working population funded health care is not sustainable, and only has been because anglo majority socialist utopias like Norway burden countries like the USA for their real defense. It won't last. See Denmark.
 
Leave it to a euroservant to conflate fake poverty definition with tax rates. The working population funded health care is not sustainable, and only has been because anglo majority socialist utopias like Norway burden countries like the USA for their real defense. It won't last. See Denmark.
I just pointed out that high taxes don't mean people are worse off. And the poverty line isn't defined by me. I'm sorry that it makes you angry, but feelings still don't matter. I guess everyone needs a scapegoat, I'll certainly give you points for originality. "It's bad in the US, because of Norway" is certainly a new one. What about Denmark, last I checked it was still there.
 
I just pointed out that high taxes don't mean people are worse off. And the poverty line isn't defined by me. I'm sorry that it makes you angry, but feelings still don't matter. I guess everyone needs a scapegoat, I'll certainly give you points for originality. "It's bad in the US, because of Norway" is certainly a new one. What about Denmark, last I checked it was still there.

Universal healthcare would never work in the US because we subsidize the cost of medicine for most of the world, especially 3rd world countries who pay pennies on the dollar for medications created in the US. Until this practice of fleecing US consumers is done away with along with other sweeping changes in healthcare, it will just remain a fantasy. Besides we have a shortage of primary care physicians in the US and as good of a job as some NP and PA do, they're no substitute for an MD/DO.

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As for our poverty rates, we have a gigantic population compared to tiny countries like yours with much higher rates of immigration from Mexico and other places so of course we're going to see higher crime rates, poverty and everything else in between. I don't blame your little countries for the US's problems, those are of our making entirely because a huge chunk of our population are morons. They keep electing politicians to office who are controlled by special interest groups that have no intention of making life better for the general population, just the top 1% here. Both Democrats and Republicans are responsible for this although Republicans are a lot more upfront about serving the rich while Democrats keep their agenda hidden behind a false mask of social justice.

One reason U.S. prescription drug prices are higher may be the relative lack of price control strategies. Unlike the U.S., many other countries employ centralized price negotiations, national formularies, and comparative and cost-effectiveness research for determining price ceilings.14 In the U.S., health care delivery and payment are fragmented, with numerous, separate negotiations between drug manufacturers and payers and complex arrangements for various federal and state health programs.15 And, in general, the U.S. allows wider latitude for monopoly pricing of brand-name drugs than other countries are willing to accept.

As for the original topic, EVs will take a long time to replace gas cars here because we don't have the infrastructure to support EVs and especially in California, our power grid couldn't handle it. We used to have rolling brown outs less than a decade ago so there's no way we could handle the burden of millions of cars on the grid. There's also the fact that EV range is limited while charging stations are sparse. It will take at least 2 decades for the US to reach even 50% electric.
 
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Don't they charge a 100% levy on cars anyways?
So anything you buy, they pay 2x the sticker price. a $50k volvo becomes $100k

And if they waive the levy, a $50k car costs $50k.
 
Universal healthcare would never work in the US because we subsidize the cost of medicine for most of the world,.

I think you mean, because you let sick people subsidize wealthy Pharma companies and their shareholders. People like Martin Shkreli.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry...rug-price-the-same_n_5aa3117fe4b07047bec694cb
or the Sackler family:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain

As for the original topic, EVs will take a long time to replace gas cars here because we don't have the infrastructure to support EVs and especially in California, our power grid couldn't handle it. We used to have rolling brown outs less than a decade ago so there's no way we could handle the burden of millions of cars on the grid. There's also the fact that EV range is limited while charging stations are sparse. It will take at least 2 decades for the US to reach even 50% electric.

You mean you used to have brown/black outs, when California deregulated, and Enron took over and created brown outs to profit from them.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2002/05/enro-m10.html
 
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Citizens of Norway are getting their asses handed to them with higher energy rates...and it isn't going to let up as more and more demand is placed on their infrastructure as the number of EVs continues to increase and places a growing burden of power consumption.


https://www.reuters.com/article/nor...tly-as-germanys-in-q3-regulator-idUSL8N1U11M0


I have to wonder if you are anyone who upvoted read your link, because it really doesn't line up with your claims.

Asses handed to them? Rates are currently less than 6 cents/KWh. They have gone up a lot, but they were silly cheap before, now they are merely just cheap.
Norway’s electricity price for the third quarter was trading at 0.43 crowns ($0.0532) per kilowatt hour (KWh)

It also has ZERO to do with EVs, it has everything to do with lack of rain:
The lack of rainfall is the main reason why the price is about twice as high as at the same time last year,” the NVE said in a report.
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Norway’s reservoirs have received rainfall in 2018 that is equivalent to 22 terrawatt hours (TWh) less than a normal year, a shortfall equivalent to the energy needs of 1.1 million households, or half of Norway’s population, it said.
 
Until parts for EV's are made by non fossil fuel industrial manufacturing its a moot point.
 
One big problem with widespread adoption of ev is the carbon rampup at the power plants to adapt to hundred kilowatt batteries constantly taxing the grid along with the utterly massive nuclear sized craters left by lithium strip mining.

We sincerely need to figure out how to mine asteroids or find another substance based on carbon etc... to create sources of power storage.
 
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Is Norway the country with a lot of hydroelectric? They might have cheap electricity which might be the driving force for EV's.
 
As pointed out, EVs are perfect for a small country with the infrastructure and not far to go. Much more difficult in NA.

I recently read an article where an automotive journalist was asked by GM to review their electric car in Canada. So, he took it on a road trip through Quebec in the dead of winter. Claimed range was around 450km I think. In the cold that dropped to about 160km. And remember, these are fresh batteries! I can't even get to work and back on that. Alto he had no issues finding charging stations on the road, being able to use them was another matter. Not enough to go around so there was always a lineup. Once he was charging, he had people continually pestering him to use it.

But good for Norway. I'm pleased that they are able to pull this off. The rest of the world will be more difficult. Its kinda like Brazil which fuels their cars almost entirely on ethanol. It works for them because they grow a lot of sugar cane. The rest of the world, not so much.
 
I just pointed out that high taxes don't mean people are worse off. And the poverty line isn't defined by me. I'm sorry that it makes you angry, but feelings still don't matter. I guess everyone needs a scapegoat, I'll certainly give you points for originality. "It's bad in the US, because of Norway" is certainly a new one. What about Denmark, last I checked it was still there.

You have to reliase us ppl seldom think much longer than the amount of money in the wallet.
 
I have to wonder if you are anyone who upvoted read your link, because it really doesn't line up with your claims.

Asses handed to them? Rates are currently less than 6 cents/KWh. They have gone up a lot, but they were silly cheap before, now they are merely just cheap.


It also has ZERO to do with EVs, it has everything to do with lack of rain:


That doenst fit my argument so I'm skipping that in the evidence i am providing.
as iwent over in the serius sam am 4 threade. ppl like to argue and have an opioning.
reading to aquire knowledge takes to much time

You can argue and show 4 opinions in the time it take to read about one topic. so its "ineffective" for the moderne person
 
I have to wonder if you are anyone who upvoted read your link, because it really doesn't line up with your claims.
It doesn't have to be verified or true, it's just confirmation bias.
 
Gas tax will be replaced with a Travel Tax soon. You'll go in periodically and pay to have your odometer read and pay a tax on miles since your last reading plus a charge for the pleasure. Or they'll start metering Car chargers. Either way, Taxes dodged with EVs is only a temporary phenomena.

Since modern care only lasts about 6 years thats not really a concern to anyone buying one. By the time the tax catches up they will be considering the next purchase and act accordingly.
 
One big problem with widespread adoption of ev is the carbon rampup at the power plants to adapt to hundred kilowatt batteries constantly taxing the grid along with the utterly massive nuclear sized craters left by lithium strip mining.

We sincerely need to figure out how to mine asteroids or find another substance based on carbon etc... to create sources of power storage.

The thing I dont understand about this argument is that most people are going to charge cars overnight when electric usage should be low anyway.
 
Gas tax will be replaced with a Travel Tax soon. You'll go in periodically and pay to have your odometer read and pay a tax on miles since your last reading plus a charge for the pleasure. Or they'll start metering Car chargers. Either way, Taxes dodged with EVs is only a temporary phenomena.

They already have a road tax. The road tax is waived for EV vehicles... They also have Toll roads, high registration fees based on size/power/MPG, and of course the gas tax. They pretty much tax almost every aspect of using cars.
 
The thing I dont understand about this argument is that most people are going to charge cars overnight when electric usage should be low anyway.

Do you gas your car during daytime?

When tens of millions are in ev cars you can count on it.
 
People get hung up on 40% tax, and cry wolf but I bet 99% of the people in Norway wouldn't want to live in the US where there is relatively low income tax, but no universal health care, and 20% of the population living under the poverty line for example in California.

But California is under the control of the far left more than just about any other state, and the left has been able to implement much of what they have dreamed about.

Yet, all it has done is raise the cost of living for the middle class and created a much large divide between the rich and the poor.
That 20% living poverty will continue to grow, just like the number of homeless under the current California policies.
And yes, I live here in California, and the government is completely corrupt and incompetent, just like anyone should expect with one party rule.
I'm nearing retirement age, and while I have enough for a comfortable retirement here in Southern California, if it gets much worse I will likely leave the state and have a really nice retirement somewhere else with a lower cost of living.


Meanwhile, over the past 20 years, Norway and other Scandinavian countries have become more capitalistic, in order to have the money to support their social safety net.
 
People get hung up on 40% tax, and cry wolf but I bet 99% of the people in Norway wouldn't want to live in the US where there is relatively low income tax, but no universal health care, and 20% of the population living under the poverty line for example in California.

Having known many Scandinavians living in the US and abroad, it has nothing to do with poverty or health care, both of which hardly affect them here. In fact, the latter is the reason some have moved to the US, because our catastrophe care is still one of the best in the world. Generally their perspective has been the US is too crowded, too rude, and too crazy. Scandinavian countries have very small homogeneous populations which makes it far easier for them to implement a decent social democracy. I mean, Norway barely has more in total population than exists just in Los Angeles... But make no mistake, they aren't typically happy paying a ton of taxes, nobody likes that. Also, there are very few incentives in Norway to actually strive to succeed. The country is based primarily on status quo and mediocrity. Also note that many of these countries have pretty straight forward transparent tax systems, something the US definitely does not have.

Anyway, I could go on for a long time on why the continued comparisons of the US to Scandinavian countries is a terrible one, but it would take up too much time and space for this. The simple truth is the systems they use would not work here, at least not on a federal level.
 
Do you gas your car during daytime?

When tens of millions are in ev cars you can count on it.
I gas my car during the day because I dont have a gas pump in my house so I fill it up when I am out. If I had an electric vehicle I would charge at night if I had an incentive
 
I gas my car during the day because I dont have a gas pump in my house so I fill it up when I am out. If I had an electric vehicle I would charge at night if I had an incentive

Yes but when millions and millions are driving electric... not everyone has a high IQ just like all the cars you see out of gas waiting on help on the side of the highway or people that forget to plug up.

It's not about price it's about load on the already overtaxed grid. And many charging stations are regularly used during the day time. Look at all the waiting lines in California for super chargers. Some people have to wait quite a while to use them. Imagine if 50 million motorists were suddenly driving electrics. Good God we need to install and prepare for that kind of rush on energy.
 
Universal healthcare would never work in the US because we subsidize the cost of medicine for most of the world, especially 3rd world countries who pay pennies on the dollar for medications created in the US. Until this practice of fleecing US consumers is done away with along with other sweeping changes in healthcare, it will just remain a fantasy.
Well first off saying a multinational corporation created something "in the US" is kind of meaningless, other than the fact they secure patents here and charge us up the ass to pay for the R&D and let's not forget their profit margins are quite substantial before you say this is necessary for R&D.

But yeah I agree until hospitals stop charging arbitrary amounts for procedures that can differ greatly by city or if you have insurance they can over charge then universal health care is simply a way to funnel money into hospital pockets
 
Yes but when millions and millions are driving electric... not everyone has a high IQ just like all the cars you see out of gas waiting on help on the side of the highway or people that forget to plug up.

It's not about price it's about load on the already overtaxed grid. And many charging stations are regularly used during the day time. Look at all the waiting lines in California for super chargers. Some people have to wait quite a while to use them. Imagine if 50 million motorists were suddenly driving electrics. Good God we need to install and prepare for that kind of rush on energy.
And yet you have power companies complaining about solar power because it makes too much power during the wrong times. Bottom line is if there was a large number of EVs on the road then it is the responsibility of the power companies to adapt to deal with a change of society not the consumer. After all, do you think they did nothing in the 50s when modern electrical conveniences became common place in the house? No they had too adjust for the changing demand. And i say this as one who had to update electrical on a turn of the century home that had one 15 amp fuse for all the lights in the home, and one fuse for ALL the plugs, so yeah the was a huge change in the electrical consumption of the house.

And yes if 50 million electric cars were on the road with the same number of super chargers as today it would be tragic. Or perhaps a future where ever parking spot in a parking lot had access to a charger, maybe not super ones but enough that you could charge your car somewhat while shopping, dining, etc.
 
Well first off saying a multinational corporation created something "in the US" is kind of meaningless, other than the fact they secure patents here and charge us up the ass to pay for the R&D and let's not forget their profit margins are quite substantial before you say this is necessary for R&D.

But yeah I agree until hospitals stop charging arbitrary amounts for procedures that can differ greatly by city or if you have insurance they can over charge then universal health care is simply a way to funnel money into hospital pockets

The pharmaceuticals are researched and developed in the US, I don't get what your point was. The reason US consumers are charged so much is because of the lack of central planning and price caps by the US govt at the federal level. If that was the case, you would see medication costs drop to what Canada and other countries pay. However, lobby groups tell our politicians that if the US consumers aren't footing the bill, it will discourage them from developing new drugs due to lack of profit which is of course not entirely true--their shareholders probably wouldn't be pleased without the huge margins they're used to but they'd definitely still turn a profit.
 
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