Nine in 10 new cars in the country are now battery-powered, and it aims to hit 100% later this year.

Summary

Norway leads the world in electric vehicle (EV) adoption, with EVs making up nearly 90% of new car sales in 2024 and over 30% of all cars on its roads.

This shift, driven by decades of policies like tax exemptions for EVs, higher taxes on fossil fuel cars, and perks like free parking, has put Norway on track to phase out new fossil fuel car sales by 2025.

The country’s wealth, renewable hydroelectric power, and extensive charging network have enabled its EV revolution, serving as a model for other nations.

  • karl_chungus@lemm.eeEnglish
    124·
    22 hours ago

    That does nothing to inhibit this achievement.

    Maybe if the rest of us got our collective thumbs out of our asses and started curbing our addiction to fossil fuels they wouldn’t have to sell oil to other countries.

    Your comment history seems to be fueled by a lot of hate and misinformation.

    • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
      31·
      11 hours ago

      Care to point out what hate and misinformation is relevant to this? If other countries didn’t buy their oil, they could not have achieved this. Norway is a small petrostate with a side gig in poaching EU fish. No amount of Irish salmon would have covered the cost of this. If you don’t understand that a country smaller by population than the city of Barcelona exporting the fourth largest amount of natural gas in the world taints this achievement to some degree, you are entitled to your opinion, but it’s not misinformation.

      • karl_chungus@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        11 hours ago

        I’m not trying to give them a free pass at selling oil or anything, but this is a much better use of the profits compared to other countries.

        I’d rather see a country exporting fossil fuels doing something with that money to not use fossil fuels than give it to Billionaires or something.

        If more countries followed their example, there wouldn’t be much demand left for that oil.

        • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
          2·
          10 hours ago

          Absolutely it is better than not subsidising EV cars. No doubt. My issue is with the original comment painting this as something “barely any effort” implying that any country could do this. This was a unique situation and I’m glad that Norwegians chose to make themselves feel better about being an educated western petrostate bane on the planet by buying themselves EVs instead of feeding it to a king, ceo, sultan or emir.

          • karl_chungus@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            9 hours ago

            Any country could do this, and it’s a bigger start than most are making. I think the “barely any effort” bit was relative compared to what other, bigger, richer countries are prioritizing instead.

            Maybe it’s not literally effortless but compared to other countries, yeah.