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Norway is on track to become the first country to eliminate gasoline and diesel cars from new car sales, with EVs making up over 96% of recent purchases.

Decades of incentives, including tax breaks and infrastructure investments, have driven this shift.

Officials see EV adoption as a “new normal” and aim for electric city buses by 2025.

While other countries lag behind, Norway's success demonstrates the potential for widespread EV adoption.

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[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 82 points 4 days ago (1 children)

While other countries lag behind, Norway's success demonstrates the potential for widespread EV adoption.

Decades of incentives, including tax breaks and infrastructure investments, have driven this shift.

Basically, if your government really wants it and doesn’t give in to lobbying then they can do it.

It’s many years of concerted effort with successive administrations keeping up the commitment.

Our 2024 figure for % of new cars being electric was 19.6% in the UK so I’d be very surprised if we hit the 2030 target of 80% new cars sold being zero emission.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 40 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Geology and geography are also helping a lot.

Norway is also a very wealthy nation, which thanks to its huge oil and gas exports, has a sovereign wealth fund worth more than $1.7tn (£1.3tn). This means it can more easily afford big infrastructure-build projects, and absorb the loss of tax revenue from the sale of petrol and diesel cars and their fuel.

The country also has an abundance of renewable hydro electricity, which accounts for 88% of its production capacity. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo

[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yepp, it’s odd to celebrate the milestone to emobility if one knows it’s paid all by carving carbon out of the earth. The goal of Emobility is to reduce carbon emissions - as far as I know.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

Yepp, it’s odd to celebrate the milestone to emobility if one knows it’s paid all by carving carbon out of the earth.

A nation converting nearly 100% to EV means less carbon needing to be carved out of the Earth going forward. How is that not something to celebrate for those that like less carbon being carved out of the Earth?

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

They don't withdraw much from that fund though and have an annual ceiling of 3% of its value, they still pay a good amount of taxes (22% on income, 25% sales tax). Blaming the oil fund just shows how lacking other countries management is.

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[–] Trashcan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

If you think we actually invest in infrastructure, you are sorely mistaken.... I mean yes, we have a decent charging infrastructure. Driven by Tesla purchase and gas stations following through in order to retain EV customers. So some infrastructure is needed to support that.

But we don't even have good enough infrastructure to distribute an abundance of hydro electricity from North to the South, while at the same time we export electricity down to central Europe from the South, so prices fluctuates a crap ton.

Don't get me started on train lines being neglected for the past 50 years. And as most countries we are realising that all our sewage and water lines need a massive renewal....

Maybe we should use more of the oil fund for these tasks, but I believe there would be large inflations if we tossed the oil fund around to fix everything....

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'm not saying they aren't downplaying it, but it's also a population of 5.5 million of highly educated and high per capita income, which makes easier to implement. Small population and people who can afford it.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Maybe but so far in the us, it’s not the large population or lack of affordability blocking EV adoption, as much as politics, conservative backlash, Facebook science, outrage culture. If we could put aside our toxicity, spite, narcissism, and come together for a better future, we could be pretty far down that road too

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Has no one told them that EVs don't work when it's cold?

/s

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I swear all my coworkers keep asking what I'm going to do when my battery dies in the cold smfh

and even my wife still has range anxiety despite traveling half of I-95 multiple times

[–] refreeze@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This was such a big worry of mine, but I'm only down 12% average versus the summer and I live in Canada.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Also, a solar panel is worse for the environment than burning fossil fuels for 20 years, and windmills make everyone nearby sick because they spin and disturb the atmosphere.

Literally things I've heard IRL in oil country from people who, clearly, went looking for a personally affirming worldview.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

yeah on a recent trip it went from like 2.8 mi/kw to 2.3 mi/kw as the weather went from above to below 0 C but the way you hear some people tell it if the snow falls you'll be stranded at work and won't be able to drive ten miles home 😑

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Norway progresses while the USA regresses going full fucking 3rd World with Orange Nero.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

Just give us 10 years and we'll be right there with you.

Really? No~r~ Way!

~(sorry~ ~for~ ~the~ ~terrible~ ~joke~ ~lol)~

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago

Norway: don't get high on your own supply...

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago

Meanwhile our Premier just floated the idea to delay the ban on gas car sales... Fun how a new president in the neighboring country makes us give up on our emission goals...

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

it's very cool to not drive in that country because you don't need to and you wouldn't because you're not fat

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

But did they stopped exporting oil and gas? ~/s~

[–] vodka@lemm.ee 17 points 4 days ago

But that's emissions outside of our environment so that's fine, no worries.

Please Europe keep buying our natural gas at record prices.

[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Crude oil and natural gas amount to 62% of the total value of Norway’s exports of goods in 2023.

https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/production-and-exports/exports-of-oil-and-gas/

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 3 days ago

Norway selling their trash

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[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

and, shocker, it was even less than "less than 1%" before electric cars were invented!

[–] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

electric cars were invented in the 1830s.. They're literally older than gas vehicles.

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