Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly

Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by rhino369 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @10:44AM (#17897151)

Norway has extreme incentives. EV’s are functional in northern climates, they have lower range.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by josteink on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:39PM (#17897809)

> Norway has extreme incentives

To expand on that, electric cars in Norway has so extreme incentives...

That price-wise Tesla Model S is not competing with Ferrari, Lambourghini, BMW M3, Mercedes Amg’s or anything like that.

It’s competing with a mid range Audi A4.

Basically, regular petrol cars are so heavily taxed that EVs (which are exempt from all these taxes), can be a luxury car in any country on earth and still come out relatively cheap in Norway.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by labster on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:47PM (#17897837)

So, Norway actually makes car buyers pay for externalities of hydrocarbon consumption?

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