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Norway, which already boasts the world's highest number of electric cars per capita, said Monday that electric or hybrid cars represented half of new registrations in the country so far this year.
"This is a milestone on Norway's road to an electric car fleet," Climate and Environment Minister Vidar Helgesen told AFP.
"And it serves to showcase that green transport policies work," he said in an email.
Sales of electric cars accounted for 17.6 percent of new vehicle registrations in January and hybrid cars accounted for 33.8 percent, for a combined 51.4 percent, according to figures from the Road Traffic Information Council (OVF).
In February, those proportions fell slightly but remained high at 15.8 percent and 32 percent, respectively.
Joke's on them. Electric cars can't work in places that are cold or have mountains.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by CoolHand on Tuesday March 07 2017, @12:28PM (5 children)
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(Score: 4, Informative) by canopic jug on Tuesday March 07 2017, @01:04PM (1 child)
Too bad, that would set us back a whole 1 MPG. The gas mileage has stayed about the same since 1991 [phys.org].
The kicker is that many of the people that drive gas guzzlers don't realize they are funding madrassas around the world. Those are about the only activities that the middle eastern oil producing countries pump money into outside their borders.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @03:39AM
From the article:
"One fundamental problem with improving the average fuel economy of the on-road fleet is that improvements in fuel economy for new vehicles take a long time to substantially influence fuel economy of the entire on-road fleet," said Sivak, a research professor at UMTRI. "This is the case because it takes many years to turn over the fleet."
So right when fleets are finally starting to age out, we are going to cut-back on efficiency requirements.
That's smart...
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @04:55PM (2 children)
You mean we might get sedans with reasonable space without having to resort to buying a "light truck" to get a decent amount of room? Tragic.
Also you hate-filled outrage-binging automaton of the fake-news media, if first true POTUS in decades is so anti-electric vehicle I wonder why Elon Musk is on-board with God-Empror's vision of the future. Maybe he knows better and you are just a shit-stain on tidy-whities of history?
PS. You morons are making this site into the old site, it is on the ropes.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @06:14PM
He isn't, but he is on a board to help advise the "God-Empror" on matters of trade and industry.
And this is good, because any leader who surrounds themself only with people who agree with them (or who are afraid to voice disagreement) is bound to make poor decisions based on incomplete information.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 07 2017, @06:43PM
On board? Or, smart enough to realize how easy it is to manipulate the president by pretending to like him?