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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 07 2017, @11:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the front-half-or-back-half? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by theluggage on Tuesday March 07 2017, @12:54PM (7 children)

    by theluggage (1797) on Tuesday March 07 2017, @12:54PM (#475979)

    Joke's on them. Electric cars can't work in places that are cold or have mountains.

    Geography 101 - Norway - shedloads of hydroelectric power - should be easy to run electric cars off of genuinely renewable energy.

    Then there's the question of local transport habits & housing. The weak spots of an electric car are (a) long, impromptu road trips and (b) housing with no garage or off-street parking. Any Norwegians care to comment on how these apply? How many cars never get more than 100 miles from Oslo?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @05:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @05:03PM (#476065)

    Ahhh good ole hydro electric, nothing can go wrong with that...

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 07 2017, @05:33PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday March 07 2017, @05:33PM (#476081)

    Well, in Norway they take a boat if they have to go 100 miles...

    Other major factor: ICE cars are stupidly expensive in norway (twice the US price and up), courtesy of taxes that electrics don't have to pay.
    So the electrics are price-competitive, which means you have very few reasons, if you have to buy two cars, not to get an electric one. Standard commutes in Norway are a lot shorter than in the US, and public transportation, including to the little town in the boonies where I went a few days, is decent, clean and practical.

    Norway is the smartest Oil producer in the world.

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 07 2017, @06:41PM (2 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday March 07 2017, @06:41PM (#476119) Journal

    Geography 101 - Norway - shedloads of oil, too. [indexmundi.com]

    • (Score: 2) by theluggage on Tuesday March 07 2017, @10:08PM (1 child)

      by theluggage (1797) on Tuesday March 07 2017, @10:08PM (#476189)

      So, more electric cars running off hydro = more oil left to export for big $$$

      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday March 08 2017, @12:25AM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday March 08 2017, @12:25AM (#476244) Journal

        I guess I'd prefer they turn it into plastic. But, they are pretty aggressive with carbon capture, [norskpetroleum.no] so on the whole it's an improvement.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @08:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @08:58PM (#476170)
    Living in Norway and have an electric car. Before getting a parking place in the community i live in, I was using the free eksteriør charging place provided by the municipality ca. 800m away and it worked pretty well.

    It is one of the incentives in place to drive change.
  • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday March 08 2017, @06:47PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Wednesday March 08 2017, @06:47PM (#476632) Journal

    Once when I was bored, I looked at an atlas, and traced the train network in Norway.

    I was actually a bit shocked when I found out it just bloody stopped, because "costs too much dynamite to continue that far north" (dunno if that's really the reason, I just made it up)!

    How do people actually *get* to Tromsø, Narvik etc.? By boat? By train via Sweden?