They understand how bad it is (also their oil reserves are not as great as before), and at least trying to take action before it's too late.
I don't know why these rich countries never do anything to improve quality of life on whole planet.
Pollution or climate change won't respect borders, so why should they?
What I see as important is anything that moves the price of EVs down and utility up. Norway is helping EV battery research a lot (although China still leads).
If anything, increased EV sales will help in tipping the trend against fossil-fuel-burning vehicles and have a positive impact everywhere.
Even if you consider oil money to be morally questionable, it can be employed as a soft power in a positive way.
Just had a streetview browse of your city, first view with the yellow man gave me an oncoming Tesla. I had a look for the chargers but didn't find any, I guess you need an app and to know what to look for.
More noticeable are the trams. Forget electric cars, trams are the future and I liked seeing so many of them. I tried to stay off the tramways as you aren't going to have charging points there, but now I want to know, if you didn't have an app, where would you look in Oslo for a street level charging facility?
Kind of inspired to go there after seeing the sunny day street view pics, lovely place!
You can find chargers in Norway by using one of the many maps or apps: https://www.ladestasjoner.no/kart/
Many of the Oslo chargers look like this: https://www.salto.no/media/images/referanser/_big4by3/søyle-...
Here's another one: https://www.google.com/maps/@59.9287152,10.7231221,3a,59.2y,...
See the instructional video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgb4Rr6cG38
With the current gen electric cars it's easy to keep a car charged in Norway. I haven't installed a charging station in the garage yet, so I just park mine at one of the city (Bergen) car parks once per week (while I go to work). A work day of charging gives me about 400 km (250 miles) range.
Indeed.
Look also to:
- the near-universality of charger stations on streets, both in residential and commercial districts;
- the huge tax subsidies for buying and owning electric vehicles;
- the low cost of (clean, incidentally) electricity (I believe most of the charger posts in the city are free, though I should note I don't drive myself);
- the substantial tarrifs and fees for poluting vehicles in the city center areas (we're talking more than a cup of coffee's cost to enter ring 1, as well as lighter but still extant fees for the larger outer rings);
- as well as some air control days where vehicles with exhaust may be outright forbidden from operating in the city center entirely...
- and all of these pressures are being tuned up over time. It's widely-discussed and part of campaigns to make things greener. So people are not only responding to the current numbers, but considering the future.
This has everything to do with the society, its incentives, and how those incentives were rationally designed; and very, very little to do with a particular manufacturer and their marketing.