First, I doubt they have the lobbyist red tape USA has with massive amounts of money buying laws from corporations. Nothing other countries do right will work in USA due to corruption here.
Don’t forget the North Sea oil money
Norwegian here: EV tax rebates and subsidies. In effect, EVs were a lot cheaper than fossil cars, and the public charging infrastructure has expanded to the point where it’s practical for most people to rely on an EV.
Those tax rebates and subsidies expired this new year, so I’m curious to see if the EV sales dominance will remain.
Now that they have the infrastructure. They should just raise the taxes on fossil fuels. Similar effect, no rebates needed.
A functioning government with forward thinking politicians?
Necessitated by constituents who expect politicians to work for them or be replaced
The answer is oil money channeled towards actually useful things instead of vanity megaprojects like in the gulf states.
A small country with higher population density?
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 Danes call us mountainmonkeys for a reason.
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
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.
