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Electric car sales keep climbing and climbing in Norway. In 2013, many of us were shocked to learn that electric cars were account [sic] for about 10–15% of new car sales in the country. We are now well aware of the fact that the Norway electric vehicle market is in a league of its own, and just yesterday I wrote about the breakdown of June electric car sales in the picturesque country. But I skipped one important note, the percentage of new car sales that were electric car sales.
Jeff Cobb reminded me of this important matter when he published an article yesterday highlighting that 22.9% of new cars in Norway are now plug-in electrified cars. And if you want some serious perspective here, catch this line: "Comprised of battery electric cars and plug-in hybrids, if the same thing were to happen in the US on a percentage basis, it would have meant 1,943,177 new [Plugin Electric Vehicles] PEVs on American roads since January." We have 50,503 new PEVs on our roads since January, about 2.6% of that number....
It's still a small fraction of the total vehicle fleet in Norway, but it signals a shift in car buyer preferences. What percentage or absolute number of EV purchases constitutes a tipping point?
Editor's Note: It's worth noting that while Norway exports a fair amount of North and Berents Sea oil and gas products, their domestic production of electricity is primarily from hydro-electric schemes with thermal and wind schemes thrown into the mix as minor contributors. Reference with interesting stats in the tables here: Statistics Norway
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by juggs on Sunday July 19 2015, @01:11AM
Not really. The text in the square brackets is an editor addition (it does not appear in the quoted source), hence does not qualify for a [sic] (sic erat scriptum) which would denote a typo, spelling or grammatical mistake in the quoted material.
Square brackets (do they have a more correct name?) are customarily used to denote an addition to a quoted text - typically done for clarification, as in this case, explaining an otherwise obscure three letter acronym.
I'll patch it up now :)
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday July 19 2015, @01:53AM
That's from an editor. I typically copy & paste from articles and sometimes photo captions and the like come out in square brackets. I thought it such a case, thus the [sic].
As I put together submissions I do very frequently see mispellings and homophones turn up, even from sites like BBC. Proofreading is a lost art.
Washington DC delenda est.