https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-ev-market-norway/
"In Norway, Toyota Motor Corp. is going from one electric-powered model to five
to better compete with Tesla Inc., fuel stations are ripping out pumps to make
space for chargers, and even nursing homes in the rural interior have switched
to battery-powered cars despite months of arctic cold.
All are signs of the dramatic shift that has put the Nordic country on the cusp
of becoming the first market in the world to all but eliminate sales of new
combustion-powered cars.
“It’s cold here, there are mountains, long distances to drive,” Yngve
Slyngstad, the former head of Norway’s $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund,
said on the way to his electric car in downtown Oslo. “There are so many
reasons EVs shouldn’t have been a success here, and yet we’ve done it.”
It’s a transition that happened with remarkable speed. While there have long
been incentives to encourage EV purchases — mainly to promote short-lived
domestic upstarts — adoption only started to accelerate in recent years, as a
greater variety of cars became available. Once an inflection point was reached,
the ramp-up was rapid.
Despite winding back some tax benefits, EVs accounted for 94% of new car sales
in October — almost double the rate in China — putting the country within reach
of a goal to stop adding combustion engines next year."
Via
What Could Go Right? Eliminating a Cancer Is Within Reach
https://theprogressnetwork.org/cervical-cancer-elimination-progress/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
