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Lessons From Norway’s Journey To Becoming The Global Leader In EV Adoption

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To learn from its experience, let’s look back through Norway’s 30-year journey to becoming an EV giant: it all started with a mission to curb the country’s CO2 emissions. Curbing CO2 Emissions with Electric Transport. Furthermore, this doesn’t factor in the savings on lower running costs as well as cheaper ‘fuel’ costs per kilometer.

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ITF analysis finds that societal costs for electric cars and vans range from €7K to €12K more than fossil-fueled equivalents

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Sample consumer and societal break-even curves for BEVs, with data points for a compact diesel for comparison. An alternate storyline might highlight the elevated upfront opportunity costs of reducing energy dependency and greenhouse gas emissions via electric cars as opposed to advanced internal combustion engine vehicles and hybrids.

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April 2023 – Plug-in car market share continues to grow in Norway

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Although these introduced some BEV taxes for the first time, mostly falling on heavy and expensive BEV models, taxes fell harder still on vehicles with CO2 emissions. PHEVs, with their middling emissions ratings, are taxed somewhere in between.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

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Autonomous taxi? And I think we could make one for a cost of maybe at at really high scale of about $10,000. You know Model Y is comparable to BMW X3, but its actual cost of ownership on a monthly basis is much lower. Does this cost less to transport or cost more to transport than, say a diesel truck?”

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