Ev's have their place, just not at my place. Get me one that can make it from Ohio to Florida without 5 long stops and I'm all ears. My daughter is actually shopping for 1 for her 200 mile roundtrip commute and save on gas. But not replace the family truckster. If I was retired and didn't travel extensively for work or lived in a place where I drove 15 miles to work and it took an hour, I'd entertain one. I'm not against them; I just have no use for one
Norway Hits Record 98.6% EV Share in April
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They have both a higher income tax and a more regressive income tax as well as a much higher price for daily good services.
That said, what do you think our top bracket is?
So, you only have room for one car in your life?
A serious question. If I have one car that’s gasoline powered that can take me on those long road trips, but I have another car that works around town and cost less than half per mile for the energy used power it, wouldn’t that be attractive?
In our first year of ownership, the plug-in hybrid is incredibly cheap to operate compared with the gasoline-only version of the same car.
Throw a few solar panels on the roof, and use them to charge it, and the money, not the politics, but the actual dollars in my pocket, start to argue in favor of the EV.
I have 3 cars and 2 of those are paid off. My wife and I work for the same company and in any given week could both end up going different directions and traveling 100s of miles. To own an ev would mean a payment and the payment wouldn't justify the savings in my case. In a different time or living in a different area, maybe. Plus, the battery life isn't anywhere close to where it needs to be for my needs. I watched my retired neighbor go through a similar thought process on a lightning that can't tow his boat to lake Erie and back without stopping. He uses his sons old f150 for it and is stuck with a truck that serves none of his needs
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VAT is crazy when I travel overseas but tips are much less so maybe it offsets.
I don't know but we pay a lot!
That's the maximum for very high earners. Most people pay less.
And education and healthcare is free. You also get at least 25 paid vacation days a year.
Not saying Norway is a paradise, but looking at income tax rate alone doesn't provide a full picture.
Watching too many Hollywood movies will do this to a person.
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Another ridiculous thread about Norway - please read the current points made - I mean, s l o w l y before posting more irrelevant things.
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And that's definitely less than what we pay in Canada when you combine Federal/Provincial.
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Yep, they gotta feed the
Norway also has a debt to GDP ratio of only 30-ish percent, a massive sovereign wealth fund, and they bought their way to that 95% adoption rate.
It’s social engineering that got them there, not a free market. Not making a value judgement, just stating the facts.
I do find the combination of cold climate, and EVs everywhere, interesting…
It’s social engineering that got them there, not a free market. Not making a value judgement, just stating the facts.
I do find the combination of cold climate, and EVs everywhere, interesting…
People say similar about healthcare in Australia but my Sister lives in Sydney and high income earners have to pay in to the system. Not sure if Norway is similar.
This is interesting because the United States ranks high on electricity production and per capita.
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It all reminds me of a guy mesmerized by DOH airport and bashing ours. I said where would you want the one gorgeous airport ? Just one state sponsored airport in the USA … ?
There seems to be some misunderstanding about the adoption of EVs in Norway.
Norway set a goal of having sales of ICE vehicles end by 2025 and pursued this goal through tax incentives and a widespread build-out of EV infrastructure, not through mandation.
Here's a link to a BBC article that gives a good account of what Norway actually did:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo
No economy in the world operates without its government defining the rules of the game, particularly incentives and disincentives, and high tax rates along with a low national debt, like Norway's, might be a better policy than putting so much of our federal spending on the plastic.
Norway set a goal of having sales of ICE vehicles end by 2025 and pursued this goal through tax incentives and a widespread build-out of EV infrastructure, not through mandation.
Here's a link to a BBC article that gives a good account of what Norway actually did:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo
No economy in the world operates without its government defining the rules of the game, particularly incentives and disincentives, and high tax rates along with a low national debt, like Norway's, might be a better policy than putting so much of our federal spending on the plastic.
Norway has a small population, less people than NYC. And where most of them live, it's relatively balmy due to the ocean currents----much warmer winters than Wisconsin or upstate NY.
DOH is a glorious place as compared to any US airport, but then we have a whole lot of them accommodating some level of commercial service in some of the most remote places, virtually all of which are financed and run by some local authority.
More broadly, public infrastructure in this country in general suffers as compared to that found in many other supposedly less wealthy countries but that's a discussion for another thread and is in no way bashing on my part.
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Right - an easy opportunity to put a round peg in a square hole you made …
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