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Re:Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017) by olivermarks on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:05PM (#16182452)
Re:Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017) by sundvor on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:19PM (#16182550)
That's paywalled for me. However going by the title, that's old news as the tax was shot down at the end of the year.

https://e24.no/makro-og-politikk/statsbudsjettet-2018/tesla-...

EU may enforce VAT on the cars, time will tell:

https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/politikk/i/nkkxd/Ap-vil-ha-...

We'll see how that goes. Fun fact: Norwegians don't like EU telling them what to do. (I'm a Norwegian, moved to Australia nearly 2 decades ago).

Re:Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017) by olivermarks on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:31PM (#16182624)
They re not sure when to reduce the tax but sales have gone down anyway, probably in anticipation of changes

'Norway has been hugely successful in introducing electric cars and aims to sell only zero-emission new vehicles by 2025. But critics argue that their popularity is mostly down to an extremely generous set of subsidies that can cut the price of the most expensive Teslas by about NKr450,000.

When and how to withdraw those subsidies has sparked a huge political debate. Some Norwegian politicians point out that many of the early adopters of electric cars were rich households buying Teslas. Bus drivers in the richest parts of Oslo complain that bus lanes are clogged with electric cars, which are permitted to use them'.

Re:Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017) by seanmcdirmid on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:33PM (#16182638)
Uhm, it is not exactly subsidies in Norway, but a reduction in a very high tax for EVs, making them comparatively more affordable than ICEs.
Re:Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017) by sundvor on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:45PM (#16183111)
Yep. EVs are both exempt of MVA (GST/VAT) tax and registration fee, whereas combustion engines vehicles (CVs?) are most definitely not. Thus EVs are thus cheap or at least affordable by function of contrast.