Maybe you should fly over there and ask them if they like them. With 517 cars per 1,000 people, people do walk, or take the bus, or ride a bike. Owning a car is not needed.
Norway Hits Record 98.6% EV Share in April
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Norway power grid is mostly hydroelectric powered and their population is very well spread out so charging is also relatively accessible and potentially* less expensive than gas.
These attributes sort of make them the worst example for EV adoption.
Why? I don't really care if they do or not. Just because I comment on a BITOG topic does not mean I am emotionally invested in it.
I do believe in personal choice in what I own without government(s) deciding for me. Maybe you can fly over there and ask them if they like their decisions being taken away from them.
They are one of the most democratic countries on the planet. Their government works for them.
It "works for them" by deciding their choices for them??? Government knows best?
Easy to do. 5.5 million people mostly living in two populated areas. Free natural resources to provide electricity. Meanwhile gasoline is highly taxed and cost over $9 a gallon.
Oil production profits are heavily taxed (as well as state owned wells) and made national income managed by the Norwegian pension fund. Invested overseas the profits pay for public benefits as well as future generations. Happy is relative.
Im sure there are areas in our country of 350 million where 5 million people are happy.
Norway income taxes are 39% on salaries, pensions and dividends. PLUS ANOTHER 22% on the after tax income of those taxes.
This explains it better ... but hey if you want a socialist country and trust you will always be happy there...
https://tradingeconomics.com/norway/personal-income-tax-rate
BTW- it always looks better over the rainbow. Norway’s consumer confidence indicator fell to -20.0 in Q2 2026, following an upwardly revised -12.4 in the previous quarter. This marked the seventeenth consecutive period of negative sentiment and the most pessimistic reading since Q1 2024,
https://tradingeconomics.com/norway/consumer-confidence
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Maybe you need to do more traveling. Government works in many places.
I have traveled mostly around the world. Spain. Brazil. Iceland. Germany. Most of the Caribbean. Belgium. Mexico. Columbia. Ecuador. Canada. Next year is Japan, Thailand, and Australia. I have also hosted a whopping nine exchange students over the years.
Funny thing, everyone wants to come the the good ole USA. Not so much Norway.
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When I worked shipyards there - we could order a hybrid in advance bcs (drum roll) - the hotel nor the shipyard had a charger - we worked 12 hour days - and 1-1/2 hours on the road … It was not hard to find fuel away from the city …
We may never know.
EVs vary wildly in livability depending on whether you are in Norway, with a coastally-concentrated population, or Montana where you might have a 100 miles before you find a single gas station, never mind an EV charge point.
They have a plan to benefit their average citizen for the future, and they are doing what makes sense to them in their country. You can still buy a gas vehicle there, but it makes no economic sense to do so for most people, and having an EV there isn't a hardship. I doubt you can find many sections of public road that isn't within 50 miles of a public charger?
I’ll just leave this here.
https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/t...-islands-norway-follow-our-trip-report.18815/
https://www.taycanforum.com/forum/t...-islands-norway-follow-our-trip-report.18815/
Or there is this.
Significant oil wealth at play.
Without the oil, things would be very different for Norway.
Total Government Expenditure: Total government spending (including intermediate consumption, salaries, and benefits) is projected to be very high, with 2024 figures showing per capita government spending exceeding $50,000 (roughly over NOK 500,000+ per person).
GDP per capital is roughly 10% different between the USA and Norway.
Look at gdp per capita.
There's no free lunch anywhere in the world; we are all being manipulated by our governments in one way or another.
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The average age of vehicles is similar to the US - so the efforts to get ICE off the road will take time …
It was a poorly formulated joke on my part, but the undertone of these types articles is always that we should be doing what Norway is doing, which of course cannot be translated to USA or even other European countries. But that’s not important when an agenda needs to be pushed.
Don't they have about 40% income tax depending on how much you make?? No thanks.
They’ve got way more than that. The sales and import tax alone, called VAT is 25%.
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