alt Hacker NewsNorway regularly sees -30C in winter and EVs account for like 99% of sales there, it made the news that in January only 7 ICE cars were sold in the entire country.
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tzs • today at 1:14 AM
Around 90% of Norway's population lives in southern or coastal areas that usually don't get anywhere near that cold.
kortilla • today at 12:02 AM
The taxes make it financially ruinous to make any other decision there
It's also a different country with a different culture, etc. Norwegians drive roughly 50% less than people in the US. There's probably a bunch of contributing factors, but the point is that reduced range is less of a problem if you drive less.
I'll be the first to say we need less range anxiety, and Norway is awesome. But we need to be careful comparing the US to Norway here.