Interesting piece here, Norway to ban fossil-fueled cars by mid Twenties! - could it work here? Would you want an entirely "Electric" Transport World?
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/norway-set-to-completely-ban-all-petrol-cars-by-2025_uk_57555504e4b04a0827f1d48c?
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Not an absolute ban, rather a prohibition on sale of new ICE vehicles. Article states that electric cars already have 25% of Norwegian market.
I you've got a dispersed population making mostly local journeys and good PT for longer trips together with abundant hydro-electric then it's not impossible.
Altogether different to UK.
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But.... but.... Boris says we're going to be like Norway when we're free of the EU!
Sod that.
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>> But.... but.... Boris says we're going to be like Norway when we're free of the
>> EU!
But.... but.... Michael says we'll be out of the trade area altogether, nothing like Norway.
Maybe, just maybe, the outies don't know their Ar*e from their Elb*w
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Thank God the remains talk nothing but sense then, eh?
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Which outfit is going to cause WW3 and world wide bankruptcy, or is that the SNP?
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Article state that electric cars already have 25% of Norwegian market.
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Surely not. I only just read on here that electric cars don't work in the real world.
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...well I've been in Norway for about a week, now, and I've only spotted one Tesla and a baby BMW.
I do hope the top-up I took today was still winter diesel!
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I did not see any when I was in Norway, maybe they don't work too well with real winter tyres with steel studs. Or maybe it is the cold.
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Actually I would be really surprised if they had anything like 25% of the Norwegian market although they are popular in Oslo. I''l have a dig around on the internet and see if there is any back up to that statistic
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"The Norwegian plug-in electric vehicle market share of new car sales has been the highest in the world for several years, reaching 22.4% in 2015, up from 13.8% in 2014" - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_Norway#/media/File:Registrations_EVs_Norway_2004_2013.png
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As CGN says, the electric cars are probably in urban areas. I spent most of my time in provincial towns and remote areas where distance would be a problem.
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>> I spent most of my time in provincial towns and remote areas where distance would be a problem.
Indeed - 5000 Tesla sales per year though, which can manage 200+ miles on a charge and a decent Supercharger network along the length of Norway now (can replenish 150miles of range in 30 mins)
www.teslamotors.com/en_GB/supercharger?redirect=no
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Is it true Norwegians don't bother to insulate their homes because electricity is so cheap?
if that's the case and there is a cheap unlimited resource to generate power than I can see Norway being in a good position to sell more leccy cars.
Perhaps they can turn all their roads into a Scalextric type track with a giant slot in the middle!
Not sure what happens when you slide off the road though!
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>>Is it true Norwegians don't bother to insulate their homes because electricity is so cheap?
No.
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Electricity_price_statistics
Its also quite often damned cold.
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It is currently b***** cold!
I'm in Bodo at the moment, and I was talking to a Norwegian who flew in from Oslo yesterday, and he thinks it's cold!
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>>I'm in Bodo at the moment...
I think we all feared you were in Doghouse after your whale musings...
;-)
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From someone who seems to have researched the intimate details of a whale's sex life, that's a bit rich!
I know you live in Cheshire, but all the same. ...
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Why do they love electric cars in the Arctic Circle?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36402942
" The country is the world leader in electric cars per capita and has just become the fourth country in the world to have 100,000 of them on the roads.
When you consider the other nations on the list are the US (population: 320 million), Japan (pop. 130 million) and China (pop. 1.35 billion), then that is quite an achievement for this rugged, sparsely populated country of just five million. "
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Norway to ban cars! - Bromptonaut
