Norway leads the world in electric vehicle adoption. Still, only a third of all cars in use in Norway are electric.
Posted by davidbauer
Norway leads the world in electric vehicle adoption. Still, only a third of all cars in use in Norway are electric.
Posted by davidbauer
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ONLY a third? *Only*? What?
Only? That’s a lot. Cars last 10+ years so even with a replacement rate of 95% it’s going to take some time.
It’s worth remembering that Norway can afford so many electric cars because they’ve become enormously wealthy from selling oil to the rest of the world. They produced almost 750 million barrels of crude oil in 2020. It’s easy to afford relatively expensive (mostly luxury) cars when you have such a tremendous sovereign wealth fund.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway)
[https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-can-tiny-norway-afford-to-buy-so-many-teslas/](https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-can-tiny-norway-afford-to-buy-so-many-teslas/)
People have been using combustion engines for almost a century. I feel like transitions take time.
Power is cheep here.
Lots of hydro power. But it would be even cheeper power here If not for some political policys.
Also people forget that norway used to lead the way with adapting new tech faster than most countries
We had electric street lights up here in 1891.
That is before new york got it.
We went green right away with hydro power.
So we can’t easily cut our co2, emissions without doing dubious decisions that are ofthen costly.
We got a coal plant on svalbard, and we mine the second purest coal up there aswell.
Now they close down everything and ship diesel up instead of using coal that is mined locally and its critical for german industries
In israel, according to April 2024, we had 25% electric + 20% hybrid cars.
Somebody has not yet learned the difference between sales percent and fleet percent. Today is their lucky day.
Some numbers I saw recently suggested that only about 4% of the total world automobile fleet is electric.
It’s funny that the biggest export of Norway is natural gas and oil.
By comparison, Norway has 2.8 million cars. 97 million in the US.
California has 13.2 million cars with 2 million electric cars sold. In San Francisco, 34% of the cars are electric.
A more relevant question is: What percentage of KM/Miles driven was by electric cars?
There are always a fair share of rarely used cars.
And according to this graph, it shouldn’t go much beyond that…?
In Denmark the number is 14% last year, and quite more next year as 51% of all new cars sold today is EV.
“Still” doing a lot of work here, this is a massive transition
11% adoption in China is even more impressive imo. They have the most cars in use at ~350 million, which is approximately 100x that of Norway.
“Only 1 in 3 cars use a technology that reached mass market potential in the last decade vs. one that has been the standard for 120+ years.”
OP is a melt.
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