Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020

Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by carlmr on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:46AM (#25900502)

It's not a local problem just because it's not a European problem.

Plenty of countries don't have that reliable electricity.

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by speedgoose on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:57AM (#25900582)

SoCal is the exception and not the norm as a develop country with enough wealth to afford electric cars while having a non reliable electric grid.

Most of the other countries with unreliable electric grid are not very much into the brand new premium electric cars market.

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by sundvor on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:24AM (#25900779)

Can confirm this is true for Australia. We frequently have outages and the network is in shambles.

Just to make sure, rather than provide any incentives (there are NONE) we're going to introduce extra taxes for EVs to make up for lost fuel excise taxes, which contrary to popular belief doesn't pay for our roads.

I guess the minimalist (by Norwegian standards) yet growing sales numbers in spite of our soaring electricity costs and Zero CO² taxes on ICEs (they're eg 40% in Norway) must be scaring the fossil fuel sponsored politicians (both Libs and Labor alike).

Yep, whiskey tango foxtrot indeed.

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by carlmr on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:18AM (#25900731)

That's true, but I think most of North America has unreliable power grids.

In 2 years living in Canada I experienced 6 blackouts. In 28 years living in Germany I've experienced 3.

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