Summary
Norway is on track to become the first country to eliminate gasoline and diesel cars from new car sales, with EVs making up over 96% of recent purchases.
Decades of incentives, including tax breaks and infrastructure investments, have driven this shift.
Officials see EV adoption as a “new normal” and aim for electric city buses by 2025.
While other countries lag behind, Norway’s success demonstrates the potential for widespread EV adoption.
Rightttt, if only we had literal millions of these cars work in freezing temps. They’re better in cold that ice cars.
If that’s the case why are all of the vehicles in the Arctic diesel? The south Pole is all diesel.
Anywhere that spends time regularly in the negatives does not use electric vehicles.
Diesel straight up doesn’t run when it gets cold enough. Diesel fuel becomes jelly in the negatives. They have to mix it with avgas to keep it liquid enough.
Reminds me of an oilfield… Town? Region? Camp? My uncle told me about called “Dead Horse, Alaska”. It gets so cold there they need to keep the diesel equipment fueled and running constantly or it doesn’t come on again without major intervention.
Sounds absolutely nuts to me, but I guess spreadsheets say the black-gold more than pays for burning nasty fuel 24/7 just to be there.
My apologies I should have been more specific. It’s a special diesel fuel they call AN8. Generally still referred to simpy as Diesel. The vehicles they put it into are diesel vehicles.
Because there’s not enough electric capacity in remote locations and fuel is more energy dense. But 99.9999995% of people are not living in the south pole, you don’t need a spaceship to go buy bread.
I live in the arctic circle and there’s a lot of EVs. Mine is petrol, I don’t know why everyone has to be diesel unless you really like listening to the starter go hnnng.
There are plenty of EVs in the arctic of Norway.
I the antarctic, where the south pole is, there is limited electric production, so it is easier to use ICE vehicles.