Well, nothing really is representative, is it?

Norway is a sparsely populated, thin country over a vast distance, and the northern half has some pretty harsh winter conditions.

Put another way: If Norway can, surely Germany and Spain can.

it's the opposite

I park on the street and live at the fourth floor, I can't charge overnight at home.

Even if there was a charging station, there are at least 100 other cars in the parking spots below my building. So you'd need dozens of them.

If Norway can, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, etc have to solve a ton of problems Norway simply doesn't have.

Plenty of people living in Oslo have exactly the same problem. The fact that some, even many, people are unable to use something doesn't many that a large number of other people in the same country can't use it.

In my travels in Germany, France, Italy, I saw plenty of houses with off street parking. Not the majority of course but a significant minority.

> Plenty of people living in Oslo have exactly the same problem

Plenty of people in Oslo means the same population of one neighborhood of one big city like Rome, Milan, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, etc.

The entire Norway population would fit in Rome.

> I saw plenty of houses with off street parking

True, and those are the areas where generally infrastructure is lacking behind and you have to travel to a close town to find a gas station.

Really, Spain? The european country with one of the lowest number of houses and highest number of apartments.

I agree that "If Norway can, surely Germany and Spain can", however the population centers in Norway are relatively temperate (for Norway!) and relatively close together. I was quite surprised at how small and slow even major roads were.