Even as other countries look to Norway for inspiration on boosting electric vehicle adoption, its cities are looking to mass transit and walkable communities—not cars—for the stable climate and greater equity that the energy transition promises.
The past 10 years have made Norway the “poster child for electric cars,” but that success has also generated some cautionary lessons for Norwegians and the rest of us, writes transport policy expert David Zipper in a guest post for Vox.
“Eye-popping EV subsidies” in place since the 1990s have led to 87% of the country’s new car sales being fully electric, a share that towers over the European Union’s current 13% and the United States’ 7%. EVs in Canada hit 8.4% for battery-electric models and 1.8% for hybrids in the last quarter of 2022, Electric Autonomy Canada reports, for a total of 10.2% of new car sales.
Read more of this deep dive into EVs' popularity and drawbacks in Norway.