Was always cutious how viable e-cars are when u have to drive long distances in rly cold weather.
Or how well they do in daily live when it has -15 °C or more all the time.
Anyone has experience with that?
So according to the writer Norway not only offered incentives but also taxed ICE cars to reduce the cost gap between those and EVs and make the latter more attractive. What will happen to poorer countries if they employ the same strategy? My guess is the vast majority of their citizens won’t be able to afford a new car and will turn to the used car market.
It’s easy boys! You only need to have a huge oil industry to finance the transition to full electric.
With the current sharp rise in energy prices here, you will have to choose either to be cold or to drive. Or to drive an electric car to go to work to pay for electricity to charge the car you go to work with …. They really stimulated the market for electric cars because it was said that electricity is cheap, but after bad export deals and green energy I do not know if it is profitable already.
…as long as you have a low population density so you don’t need as many chargers, a shitload of money your government have made from selling oil and gas so they have a massive pot of money to put chargers in place and lots of renewable energy to power it for free.
It’s still terrible compared to public transportation.
Wish we could have EU/EEA wide decent/affordable public transportation
Nah… gas cars will stay here a looong time. Some countries may ban them but the majority of earth population won’t afford them unless athey are close in price. Also, the majority of electricty is coal produced…so…
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Was always cutious how viable e-cars are when u have to drive long distances in rly cold weather.
Or how well they do in daily live when it has -15 °C or more all the time.
Anyone has experience with that?
So according to the writer Norway not only offered incentives but also taxed ICE cars to reduce the cost gap between those and EVs and make the latter more attractive. What will happen to poorer countries if they employ the same strategy? My guess is the vast majority of their citizens won’t be able to afford a new car and will turn to the used car market.
It’s easy boys! You only need to have a huge oil industry to finance the transition to full electric.
With the current sharp rise in energy prices here, you will have to choose either to be cold or to drive. Or to drive an electric car to go to work to pay for electricity to charge the car you go to work with …. They really stimulated the market for electric cars because it was said that electricity is cheap, but after bad export deals and green energy I do not know if it is profitable already.
…as long as you have a low population density so you don’t need as many chargers, a shitload of money your government have made from selling oil and gas so they have a massive pot of money to put chargers in place and lots of renewable energy to power it for free.
It’s still terrible compared to public transportation.
Wish we could have EU/EEA wide decent/affordable public transportation
Nah… gas cars will stay here a looong time. Some countries may ban them but the majority of earth population won’t afford them unless athey are close in price. Also, the majority of electricty is coal produced…so…