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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: -1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @04:18PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @04:18PM (#476053)

    When asked about the adaptation of electric and hybrid cars, the politicians in neighboring Sweden responded:

    "We do not break down our new car statistics by type of car. That is not helpful. Whether electric or hybrid cars are over-represented in new car statistics would only stoke fires of racism. Even if it is true, electric and hybrid cars are also over-represented in desirable-cars category, so really it is not because electric or hybrid cars are too numerous among new cars that is the problem, it is that they are desirable. And they have no control over that. We just have to work at making all cars equally desirable. By allowing every car to have the same opportunity we will ensure that no car is over-represented in desirability statistics."

    After the news conference, the politician had to be re-wound before addressing questions about the migrant crime statistics.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @07:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @07:16AM (#476364)

    That's why I call it Sjweden.