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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 Nuke on Tuesday March 07 2017, @08:51PM

    by Nuke (3162) on Tuesday March 07 2017, @08:51PM (#476167)

    I don't get this. If you have 60 units of energy, and you use 30 units of energy to climb a mountain (minus losses), how can going down the mountain result in more than 30 units of energy being returned? If that was true you could charge your car to full by doing nothing more than repeatedly climbing and going down a mountain, which is a violation of the basic physics of energy.

    You don't understand. The GP only ever goes downhill. There he goes [charliemccarron.com].

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