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How Norway Accomplished a Near-Total EV Transition - Almost 100 percent of new cars registered in November were electric (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Valnao@sh.itjust.works to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] univers3man@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A small country with higher population density?

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Small yes, but the population density is in fact quite low.

Source: #222 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density

We simply don't have a lot of flat terrain to build on. The ~~Beachbums~~ Danes call us mountainmonkeys for a reason.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah we are almost the worst case scenario for stuff like public transit or EVs and what not

And yet, somehow it has been made to work. Where there's a will there's a way

..and probably something to do with the technologies being more practical than most people think

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yup. As a state certified bygdetulling I live in the middle of bumfuck, and I could in theory get by with an EV, but it'd be pretty impractical when I need to wheel down to Oslo on short notice (which happens pretty frequently). So I went for a PHEV instead. 7h drive, and I prefer that over a 50min flight. I drive on electric power only when local, and I can run fueled for whenever I need to go longer.