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Bergen, a city in Norway, have a lot of mountains around that makes a bowl. That bowl used to be filled with a thick smoke layer in the winters from all the cars. That have been significantly improved because of EVs. So it definitely helps on the air quality
Hi Sam…your piece about Norway was excellent! Just wanted to let you know that you and your family are in my prayers. So sorry to hear of Shana’s health situation Have a safe trip with your kids and good luck with your new EV!🙏🙏🙏😊😊😊
Norway has a couple of advantages over us. First they are a wealthy country (heavily taxed as well with a good social support network). They also have a heap of oil that they no longer need but are willing to sell to anyone else who is still "addicted" to ICE vehicles. The biggest advantage Norway has is that most of it's electricity is generated by hydro so there is no dependency on foreign oil and electricity should be cheaper. We have 21m vehicles registered and we sell about 1.2m new ones each year. At that rate even if we were to go one for one (that is one EV sold means one ICE car off the road - that will not happen because the ICE car will be passed on to the kid or kept as a runaround) it would take us 20 years or more to rid our roads of ICE cars (not to mention trucks or the newly classified light commercial utes and SUVs), We have lots of solar potential and lots of wind potential to harness and the biggest advantage of EVs would be to reduce our dependence of foreign oil (that tap can be turned off at any time or the Middle East could blow up and supply be interrupted) and to give us cleaner air in our cities. Neither will happen over night but the influx of cheaper (but it appears high quality) EV models from China might be the stimulus we need to bring EVs out of the claimed sales slump they're said to be in at the moment in Australia.
I was driving on the M1 and a cream or white Xpeng went by me about 10am on Sunday 22/9 near the Gosford ramp. Was that you on your road trip Sam? I was so excited to see my first Xpeng my wife told me to calm down it’s just a car (she doesn’t understand how pivotal this car will be and is my goal car). Thanks for what you do and good luck with everything. Cheers
In Australia it’s critical to our security and wealth that we convert to EVs. We are long on sunshine, but short on oil, and throwing away $6.5Bn to foreign oil producers every year is fairly dopey when there’s a much cheaper alternative of rechargeable, heavily subsidised, surplus Chinese stock available.
@@aussieideasman8498 The chargers are being rolled out everywhere, particularly now with pole mounted by Ausgrid. No one said in 1924 that because we had very few petrol stations that horses and bullocks would be a good idea.
@@seanlander9321 Watch my two video's where I road trip my Atto3. The current amount of working chargers is not only inadequate for the few EV's here, but is abysmal. They break down fast and they are repaired super-slowly, as well. BTW, your analogy is correct, but I didn't disagree with what was not even mentioned. Getting the fuel station infrastructure happened, otherwise people would have complained. EV's are not a bad idea, and the adequate supply of chargers is a good idea. You need a class in comprehension.
@@steveclancy7832 There’s plenty of know-how here to tap oil, just look at Bass Strait, which is extraordinarily difficult. However our reserves are expensive, which makes it cheaper to import, but drains our wealth. Cheaper still is the sun that shines every day across our continent.
I think it's intresting to look at the gasoline sale in Norway. Diesel is used for lorrys (big trucks), and semies. So, the sale of diesel will go on. But, what will happend when the gas cars reach 10-15%? Already gas pumps are removed at the gas stations. Stations that had 6, have only 3, now. And, you are starting to see more gas pumps out of order. Looks like the technicians are going over to other jobs. The stations them self are changing their names to energy stations, and are starting to look more like a fast food restaurant, with charging. The new sales numbers for fossil fuel are comming now on friday.
As of September 2024, the number of different vehicle types registered in Norway is as follows: Battery electric vehicles (BEVs): 754,303 Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs): 208,185 (198,707 petrol and 9,478 diesel) Hybrids (HEVs): 156,203 (155,307 petrol and 896 diesel) Internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs): Petrol: 753,905 Diesel: 999,715. These figures highlight Norway's rapid transition towards electric mobility, with BEVs now outnumbering petrol cars. However, diesel vehicles still dominate the overall fleet.
One way to boost EV car numbers is how they do in Belgium 🇧🇪 via tax policy. 1 Tax structure incentivises companies to give most or all their employees company cars. They reduce their tax bill by doing so. 2 Then companies can impose green policies like EVs only, like our company does. In Belgium 60% of cars are company cars and these are turning all electric, fast. Easier to persuade politically sensitive companies, than individuals.
Yes brilliant that Norway has succeeded so well with EVs. However, it is somewhat hypocritical because they are massive exporters of oil and gas, so it could be said that they are exporting their pollution
I think we all ( Aussies) are sick and tired of being ripped off by fuel companies. Personally I need at least a hybrid to tow the caravan but I'd love to try and EV for the shorter travels. Interesting times ahead.
I enjoy and appreciate your realistic optimism Sam. Unfortunately we in the Eastern mainland islands are slow to embrace EVs as they still want to slobber over their EH and HD Holdens. Best wishes for your missus.
Norway is exceptional for a number of reasons. Electricity is cheap and plentiful, it's a relatively small population, and the government is heavily involved in subsidising EV's. Don't expect this kind of EV uptake to be duplicated everywhere.
China has more EV's than ICE. Not sure what the population has to do with this. The main reason is can people afford them and 2nd would be infrastructure to charge.
I completely agree that buying a new gas/diesel/hybrid/plug-in hybrid will lose a lot of value, but used ones will sell because they’re going to be cheap. We will still go through a fairly long period of digesting current builds. But we’ll get there, I’m sure.
@@markmeachen6927 It will take time. They will become the vehicles of those who do not drive far and are near a gasoline/diesel station. Make no mistake, with most EV charging occuring at home, gas stations will close. For example, locally, three of the old gas stations no longer sell gasoline or diesel. Now, they were put under by mega gas stations, but expect to see fewer pumps every year.
Either that or it will happen as with the transition from mobile to smartphones...and let's not forget that Robotaxis will kill the overall amount if cars on the streets. I personally never owned a car although 50. Soebding so much money and time on a car I barely use 2% of my ownership? No thanks.
@@External2737 China and Norway have drastically different populations and car ownership levels, so the difference in the number of cars is vast. 1. China: As of recent estimates, China has about 340 million vehicles, with more than 300 million of these being passenger cars. Given China's population of around 1.4 billion, this reflects a growing middle class and expanding vehicle ownership. 2. Norway: Norway, with a population of around 5.4 million, has approximately 2.8 to 3 million cars. Norway is known for having a very high percentage of electric vehicles (EVs), with over 80% of new car sales being electric in recent years. In summary, China has over 100 times more cars than Norway, due to the sheer difference in population size and economic scale.
@External2737 China is moving faster then you think, most Chinese cities I've visited have more EVs than ICE. I would say no more than another 5 years.
he is talking about the fleet as a whole so including all the vehicles that were sold in the last 40 years and driving around still. china is very far from this
@@passby8070 That is great news. Honestly, any new oil importer not going EV is strategically being silly. Once the stock of ICEs starts to decrease, we will see gas stations close. That will further push drivers to EVs. 5 years is amazingly rapid.
I suspect Norway is a bit like Germany - a wealthy part of Europe that buys lots of new cars and exports lots of second hand ones. Further east in places like Georgia they import lots of second hand cars. So the second hand market is likely influenced by traders buying old cars and transporting them south and east.
I saw BYD truck which was a hybrid that uses the gas engine to charge the battery instead of using it to drive the truck and they say it can go over 500 miles before a charge. It was brought in from Mexico. Stellantis is now saying they have the same type of truck coming to the market.
20million vehicles in Australia. 1million new vehicles annually. 20years. For Australia. Petroleum for road building and petrochemical industry and emergency backup and legacy ICE vehicles for decodes.
Hi Sam, Question the price of fuel just went down to $1.60 a litre do you think it will keep going down as EVs will be bought up and more EVs on the road less reasons for fuel so the price should go right down.
It'll be like the switch to smartphones; the changeover will be swift. It'll be so EVs in five years. But the life of a gas car is 200k to 300k (often 15 to 20 years) and, so the last gas cars will largely be gone by 2045 to 2050 or so.
Spain IS a clear example where car dealers try not to sell EVs. They are too expemsive for Spanish pockets, the charging services are terrible and most people live in flats so they cannot charge at home. So never tonsee that here in decades.
Norwegian loves electric cars, they are modern and faster, better in all ways. Now they plan to make all the big truck electric in a couple of years. They already been mapping out the charger stations in the most northern part of Norway, in the arctic. Estimated 6 out of 10 petrol stations are going to shut down soon.
US market is slow due to poor products, Dealerships reluctant to sell and Legacy car industry/Oil industry that has been hoping it will all fade away. Minimal research has been carried out by the Legacy guys to make the token effort in manufacturing EV's. That being said, the media are doing a fine job in the US to distribute negative information about EV's
My Mustang Mach e GT is a fine car, and I have always bought premium ICE cars. I sold my Porsche to buy this one. It certainly is not a "poor product"!
@@jamesdaniel947 It depends on what you are used too, when you compare it with the Tesla it is years behind on technology, the algorithm that controls the car, the efficiency, the weight compared to other EV's, the design and the way that Tesla can make a 20% profit from each EV compared with the 40% loss that Ford losses on each EV. VW takes 30 man hours to make a EV and Tesla 10 hours with the latest manufacturing techniques using giga castings replacing hundreds of parts with 2 castings, 1 front and back with structural battery in the middle. Ford Mustang gets you from a to b well enough but it takes a Tesla to beat a Bugatti Veyron over a 1/4 mile. CATL have 125,000 university grade engineers working in research of which 250 are Doctorate level. The US Legacy car industry is doing very little research.
@@joaquindiaz7818 That's possible if they have an early retirement plan for the legacy fleet. Otherwise the transition rate is 6% per year assuming 15 year vehicle life. . .
Hey Sam looking at total oil consumption in Norway, it seems to not have decreased in the past few years but only stalled. Would be interesting to find out how that has happened.
Oil consumption was 221.000 barrels in 2018 and 192.000 barrels in 2022.... That's a significant decrease in just 4 years. Please check your sources. But don't forget that the transport sector is not electrified yet.
In the USA everyone loves big pick ups (utes) and SUVs. Gasoline and diesel will dominate trucks for the near future. PHEVs make the most sense for cars here in the USA. High home ownership for home charging, plentiful gasoline, large country and most of all Range Anxiety.
New cars maybe, I drove my Tesla 5k miles across Europe from UK & around Norway. There are still more ICE vehicles than electric, but just a matter of time.
We will be able to see how Gas stations handle the change in the amount of Fossil fuel vehicles on the roads as there has to come a point where, gas stations will start to close down. Customers don't only buy fuel at a gas station, they also buy snacks and drinks and whatever other things they sell, which also makes them money, less customers means less products that have a shelf life like Pies and Donuts as well as Milk drinks like Iced Coffees or Iced Chocolate. I am sure there will be a UA-cam or two talking about the plight of gas stations in areas that are getting a higher density of EV's to ICE. We all saw what happened to Video stores once another system comes that is better, as well as those of us old enough to remember when we rode Horses to get about and had no telephone or TV let alone Electricity lol. Each time something new comes along the previous options either die or become niche businesses and only one or two survive, like your local Blacksmith, our last one closed about ten years ago. No one cared about the poor franchisee that thought they got a great money-making opportunity only to find slowly but surely less and less customers coming through their doors. I think in a very few years we will see the same thing with Service Stations, or Gas stations as the Yanks say :). The next ten years will be a very interesting period and that isn't even taking into account Robots and A.I, it will either be a huge destructive period as far as jobs go, or it will be a fantastic change where people no longer need to work and can enjoy life to the fullest and money will be a thing of the past, I could just see wealthy people being happy with no longer being special or treated like royalty by Police and Judges.
So there are 3 states (KY, WV, and WY) where power is so polluted where you’re actually better off with an old hybrid and investing in solar. We also have states where the speed limits are 130 kph in mountainous areas, where there are even area where you can’t get fuel for 100 KM and those governments don’t see a need to put in EV charging, even though there is large amounts of federal land for camping and more.
Just because Norway has more EVs than most countries, that does not make it a clean green Country. Norway has an oil industry producing 203,000 barrels of crude oil distillation per day and processes crude oil into various products, such as fossil fuels and industrial chemicals. Norway has a significant mining industry producing various raw materials, including ground calcium carbonate, flake graphite, olivine, silicon, iron ore, and titanium minerals. Most of Norway’s mines and quarries are located along its coastline. Although there have been many protests from scientist and environmental organizations against deep-sea mining, Norway has opened its continental shelf to commercial deep-sea mineral exploration, aiming to extract critical minerals like copper, zinc, cobalt, and rare earth elements. Many organizations are concerned about the potential irreversible damage to marine ecosystems from deep-sea mining. Norway use mostly hydropower and many think hydropower does not cause pollution. Hydropower does cause pollution. The reservoir behind the dam releases CO2 and dangerous methane into the atmosphere 24 hours a day non -stop. The gases are released by ebullition rising to the surface and degassing when water passes through a turbine or pump. The amount of co2 released by the reservoir is not as great as co2 released from a coal fired power plant.
For sure, it is gonna break the US OEMs, because while we dawdle with MAGA boycotts, and Trump's tariffs, the Chinese technology waits for no one as they are moving forward at "Lightning" speed!
The US has always been very slow in technology adoption and is many years behind almost everyone else. I live in a village in the middle of nowhere in the UK but have fibre to the property giving me 1Gb internet. Apparently there are places in the US where these speeds are unavailable. Quite startling I know but that is how it is. Slow adoption of EVs is inevitable. There are still communities there using horse and carts.
New cars - are driving more and more often than old cars - and hence more there are more EV’s on the road in % than EV’s as a % of total amount of cars.
@@KulySoft Norway has always been a rich country. The oil money mostly goes to investing in US stocks. Denmark has higher wages than Norway now so for them importing EVs are cheaper. Denmark also has no nuclear, no hydroelectricity and is still 80% renewable electricity production.
@@steffengustavsen9678 Is not true. They by being EU top oil producers in the 80s allowed them to diversify in order to avoid the dutch disease is one thing. Even today Norway si second to Rusia on gas extraction. The idea that irritates me is the hypocrisy. They've built the wealth on oil then gas, now they preach "green". By that is the "West" for you. Hypocritical to the core.
@@KulySoft What does that have to do with EVs? No tax/theft is not a subsidy. There are taxes on EVs btw. Road tolls, yearly tax, 60% tax on electricity, and VAT on EVs costing more than 500 NOK. Norway is reducing oil and gas consumption and that is what matters.
Hi Sam, any chance you could use your network to look into, hopefully, lowering respiratory disease diagnosis in countries with a higher percentage of EV's? I'm anticipating billions of dollars getting saved in future, simply because less people have a reason to get sick! I hear the current numbers are several hundred million people worldwide. All the best.
I retired from EPA air quality enforcement and the scientific studies on the effects of air pollution on respiratory disease are well established over the last 50+ years. We ignore these findings at our own peril!
It's easy to achieve this when you are one of the richest countries on earth that is floating on an ocean of oil. That also means that whatever climatic benefits they have reaped from the EV transition they have more than offset with their oil sales. Norway is part of the problem, not the solution.
Thailand plan to have all EVs in 2030. Now the ICE cars are not selling. The first BYD cars roll out from their factory next year, that he end of new ICE cars sale.
Well, if you are going to lose money buying gas ore hybrid than there is going to have to be a very good incentive to move to the EVs. That's what Obama did to get people to sell their older cars and is what will have to be done in the US for some time. Maybe they should take the subsidy they give the oil companies and use that for the car and solar, wind, and battery industries. Donor money is blocking this until they do something about that.
@@jamesdaniel947Its not because of socialism, theres plenty of shithole countries that have similar communist policies as norway, russia is a good example. It is also a communist country full of highly educated non religious white people so it should be an america sized norway but isnt
There are those who believe oil production will decrease because of the EV. There has been an increase in oil production, not a decrease. If you want an electric car then oil production must increase. The reason is that an electric car uses more products made from oil than an ICE car. Add to this the huge amounts of fossil fuels consumed to mine the minerals for the EV battery. Have you not heard the expression “An EV is an oil well on wheels.” The oil companies couldn't care less if all vehicles in the entire world were electric, because oil is used to produce millions of other items besides fuel for ICE cars. Your computer and keyboard for example and the hundreds of items in and around your home.
EV fanboy, the sales tax for ICE cars in Norway is nearly 90% which is a big reason to buy electric cars, plus don't forget that Norway is a big electricity producer by hydro as well. ICE cars from Norway are easy to sell in Central Europe at a high price, especially well maintained and low millage ... EV cars in depreciation lose up to 60 % in one year and I see no technical reason why not ... the reason for battery issues and expensive repairs and easy catastrophic damage which leads to salvage ... each 100k you need to change all seals/ball bearings for your electric drive motors ... if not you will need replace electric motors due to failure because housing inner surface will rust and lose conductivity ... problem is that these parts are cheap but to replace them you dissemble/assemble all undercarriage including all hoses which takes easy a couple of days etc. Consider BMW in comparison low maintenance car. The second problem is batteries ... no compatible third-party batteries for most cars except the Nissan Leaf/N200 or Toyota Prius... The second existing battery packs aren`t reparable just repurposable ...
So people on Norway buy EVs because they love new tech and not because the government imposes 90% on ICE cars…this channel takes EV propaganda to next level…
@@kalex381 if you impose a 90% tax on the personal car (it is normal for Scandinavia, similar is for Sweden and very tough in Finland)... and there is an exception you will pick that one as long it fits your needs ... Yes there are a lot of very rich people there and as any rich people they try new technology... but the number of such people is very limited ... never forget the happiness of mine Norwegian acquaintance who manages to save enough to buy a new astra gtc ... after taxes for 50k (around 30k in EU ins similar configuration) ... imagine that this person instead of paying 50k for a new economy car can get new one for just 30k ... and have spare 20k for electricity/insurance/maintenance? in such case being the reasonable person I would buy electric just for the price as long it provides majority comforts include range at least 300 km in winter which majority of 4 door electric cars provides ... Plus Norwegians had from the beginning of 20th-century reliable abandon hydro energy production in fjords ... Electric car makes sense consider current qualities and Norwegian conditions include climate/resource availability/taxes ...
@@occasionalquest you are right…If I faced with a 90% tax on a ICE car and little tax on an EV, I would buy the EV as well and save ton of cash…The least thing I want to do is to pay 90% tax on a disposable item…Consumers in Norway are forced to buy an EV because of punitive taxation for alternatives. And if tax is not working as method, outright bans on sale or use of ICE cars will come into force.
I think that there are a number of reasons that the US is slow to adopt EVs. I’m not sure what the most important reasons are but a quick list should help. First and foremost the US has an important car industry to protect. Major manufacturers including Toyota, Honda, GM and Ford cannot make EVs profitable so refuse to build them and sell them. Many Americans believe their Japaneses vehicles are far better than their American counterparts. They are reluctant to change brands even if EVs may be better. Next in line is an enormous amount of FUD as spun by big oil and national media. Big oil hate EVs for obvious reasons and national media hate the fact that Tesla refuses to spend money on advertising. Throw in the obsolete excuses concerning range anxiety and initial cost and it’s easy to understand what’s going on. Lately there has been a surge of sales of hybrid vehicles. Notice that is the Japanese and Legacy auto pushing these vehicles. No surprise. Last is the complicated relationship between Musk and the US Government. Joe Biden has treated Musk poorly. Various departments of the government including Justice, FAA, NASCA and IRS are all guilty on dragging Tesla through the mud and slowing EV adoption. What is crazy is that Elon and the government should be working together to solve major issues including climate change, energy independence, clean air, electric grid issues, internet access and space exploration to name a few areas of cooperation. It doesn’t help that Elon is Elon and at times is his own worst enemy. Taken together any of these issues can slow down EV adoption. Throw in a so called leader that claims climate change is a hoax and you get quite a brew that needs to be addressed.
USA - Besides slow charging times, the electric grid will need upgrading/modification to support all the electric vehicles if there is a rapid adoption of EVs, and few charging facilities exist in public places (those that do exist in shopping centers/at hotels, etc are almost always occupied, especially for overnight charging. Resale values on used EVs are atrocious compared to an equivalent gasoline-powered vehicle, repair shops are minimal and usually have long delays for service, auto insurance costs are far higher than for an equivalent ICE vehicle. Also realize that most vehicles sold in the USA are large trucks or SUV's with towing capabilities far beyond that of an electric vehicle (the Tesla Cybertruck is considered something of a novelty, not a real truck for daily work use). I can't see gasoline-powered vehicles disappearing within the next 20 years from roads in the USA.
You plugged your Tesla preorder once or twice, you plug the xpeng every day with out fail and you haven't even driven it? What for if you receive nothing... or purely for the fact they watch every video?
Dear Viking, Norway has and is selling more oil and gas per capita than most OPEC countries. That is why they can afford to subsidize 50% of any EVs cost for the buyers. Yes, 50% of the price is paid by subsidize.
Electric vehicles drop like rocks in Value in Canada and the U.S opposite or Norway. That is the main reason nobody wants to buy them. I compromised with a Lexus Hybrid. Love it.
You get the US incentives wrong. You have to be rich enough to owe the government the amount of the incentive to use it. You also have to be able to wait to get it back at the end of the year. Not paying sales tax is up front, so you lower what you pay and have to finance to lower your payment.
No federal applies right away, and the 3 and Y are price comparable to other cars in their class. Then, depending on the state, one (except despair) lives in even more subsidies except the backwards states of the southeast. Dealers groups are liars cheats and conmen. And, yes, I have fact sold cars... I have more than a few clues.
Are you sure that's not the 'weight' benefit a business owner can get for registering his/her vehicle as a business vehicle if its over a certain weight (I believe its 5,500 lbs) regardless if its EV, gasoline, diesel, or other? I'm under the impression that the USA Federal (national) government incentives were eliminated on EVs. Some states have their own EV incentive programs, but not the federal government.
How about talking about a country who doesn't export their pollution and isn't China that has had success in selling electric cars?. Then I would be impressed.
@@okklidokkli In my opinion Norway are hypocrites as they sell most of their oil to other countries to pullute.If they had any balls and didn't speak with a forked tongue they would stop selling any oil.
Wrong. As of September 2024, the number of different vehicle types registered in Norway is as follows: Battery electric vehicles (BEVs): 754,303 Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs): 208,185 (198,707 petrol and 9,478 diesel) Hybrids (HEVs): 156,203 (155,307 petrol and 896 diesel) Internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs): Petrol: 753,905 Diesel: 999,715. These figures highlight Norway's rapid transition towards electric mobility, with BEVs now outnumbering petrol cars. However, diesel vehicles still dominate the overall fleet.
America has cheap gasoline and they have the mentality of powerful engines, Europe is expensive gasoline - exp. UK £1.39 per litre, but electric overnight 1 kwh costs £0.07 so 50 kwh £3.5 which is a very good price. Norway anyway they went electric a long time ago, they are the country of 1000 lakes so they they produce a lot of electricity. Congratulations Norway and I hope that Europe will also come behind but the UK will be in second place after Norway ))))
Australia has the same latitudes as the Sahara Desert. People are surprised how bright Australia is. Cold latitude artists were surprised by the brightness of Greece and Spanish sky's. Australia is the same, but bigger. Australia should have a robotic PV panels factory working 24/7/365. Australia should have robotic BV, battery vehicles, manufacturing 24/7/365. V2G BVs oversized battery parked 23hrs every day. Only 15% of Australia’s energy is electricity. Grid electricity. The grid is a $TRILLIONS infrastructure investment but is toooo small in capacity. 7 times toooo small. Rooftop PV is breaking the grid now and grid big batteries are under construction to help. With more than 20 million V2G BVs, selfparking selfplug-in Australia will have more than enough battery capacity. PAID FOR BY THE CUSTOMERS. Some people are brain dead and are lost in the past.
And way worse emissions. Also, diesel costs more in the US gas. Has for almost decade if not longer ever RED diesel cost more than gas. For the huge number of non-americans RED diesel is for agri cultural use only and is more polluting. Thus why it is agribusiness use only and is always far away from major population centers. Because it has zero road tax. But whatevers.
@@GrigoriZhukov You are talking about the situation in the US ,American car drivers never did buy a lot of diesel cars and why is the diesel red ? I suspect because it is used for agricultural use and therefore not taxed. The fuel is not any more polluting or different to any other diesel fuel.
@davidboskett5581 Actually, it is more polluting. Bought less? You could say better they stopped buying junk heaps. More fore repairs more for fuel. Oh, sure, in the 80s and 90s, the fuel was slightly cheaper. And my grand.othe owned a brand new 1980 Oldsmobile 88. My uncle had a 1980 Chevrolet pickup. Both had the 6.2l diesel. Both after wearing those in less than 200km. Never bought another diesel. But do go, I recall several Isuzu pickups that were diesel. Similar results.
Norway heavily taxes gas vehicles not to mention they subsidize the hell out of EVs. It’s easier for them cause they have the infrastructure and they are a very small country. The country if Norway is smaller than New York City
@@External2737 Norway has and is selling more oil and gas per capita than most OPEC countries. That is why they can afford to subsidize 50% of any EVs cost for the buyers. Yes, 50% of the price is paid by subsidize.
So Norways 50 dams took about 1 Billion tons of Concrete and 4 Billion pounds of steel to construct. Rough math of say 100 lbs of CO2 per ton of concrete + similar per pound of steel and you get a total of 600 billion lbs of CO2.= burning 30 billion gallons of gasonline. The tiny population of Norway has about 800,000 BEVs so if half of these dams were devoted to powering cars 15 billion gallons of gas/800,000 is 15,000 gallons per car! So if a dam needs replacement every 100 year thats still 150 gallons per car per year; at 50 mpg thats7,500 miles a year; plus BEVs take much more energy to make so you actually use more CO2 in Norway - Brilliant.
Robik, we get most of our electricity from our solar panels. And when home batteries drop in price enough, two years or so, we will be off grid. When we remodeled this house, we replaced the propane heat, dryer and range with electric. Home heating and cooling and water heating are heat pump. My point with all of this is that gas cars are actually a problem for us! The nearest gas station is a 14 mile round trip away. And being rural, gas is very expensive. But I can power our used Chevy Bolt for free at home. As savings from home energy paid for the solar, electricity for the car is free. More and more of us are breaking free of the corrupt electricity and petrol cartels and going energy independent.
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Bergen, a city in Norway, have a lot of mountains around that makes a bowl. That bowl used to be filled with a thick smoke layer in the winters from all the cars. That have been significantly improved because of EVs. So it definitely helps on the air quality
Similar with Los Angeles, the city is surrounded by mountains so the smog stays in the city. Hopefully with more EV's the air quality has improved.
Out of four cars in my family in Australia, three are evs. The fourth is used about once a fortnight. Two BYD Dolphins and one BYD Seal.
Live in the city?
@@bomberaustychunksbruv4119 yes, in Perth. And I travel to Busselton a couple of times each year. In my Dolphin.
Hi Sam…your piece about Norway was excellent! Just wanted to let you know that you and your family are in my prayers. So sorry to hear of Shana’s health situation Have a safe trip with your kids and good luck with your new EV!🙏🙏🙏😊😊😊
Where, go where does Sam get his information. ? It must be a Crystal Ball or maybe a Fortune Teller
Where do you get your info? American Petroleum Institute?
Dear Shana, I hope you get well soon.
My best wishes for your wife and family from America. I hope Shana will make a speedy recovery. I truly enjoy your videos as a Tesla Model 3 owner.
Norway has an excellent charging network. They aren't a small country either, but there are very few journeys you need an ICE for.
Norway has a couple of advantages over us. First they are a wealthy country (heavily taxed as well with a good social support network). They also have a heap of oil that they no longer need but are willing to sell to anyone else who is still "addicted" to ICE vehicles. The biggest advantage Norway has is that most of it's electricity is generated by hydro so there is no dependency on foreign oil and electricity should be cheaper. We have 21m vehicles registered and we sell about 1.2m new ones each year. At that rate even if we were to go one for one (that is one EV sold means one ICE car off the road - that will not happen because the ICE car will be passed on to the kid or kept as a runaround) it would take us 20 years or more to rid our roads of ICE cars (not to mention trucks or the newly classified light commercial utes and SUVs), We have lots of solar potential and lots of wind potential to harness and the biggest advantage of EVs would be to reduce our dependence of foreign oil (that tap can be turned off at any time or the Middle East could blow up and supply be interrupted) and to give us cleaner air in our cities. Neither will happen over night but the influx of cheaper (but it appears high quality) EV models from China might be the stimulus we need to bring EVs out of the claimed sales slump they're said to be in at the moment in Australia.
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I was driving on the M1 and a cream or white Xpeng went by me about 10am on Sunday 22/9 near the Gosford ramp. Was that you on your road trip Sam? I was so excited to see my first Xpeng my wife told me to calm down it’s just a car (she doesn’t understand how pivotal this car will be and is my goal car). Thanks for what you do and good luck with everything. Cheers
In Australia it’s critical to our security and wealth that we convert to EVs. We are long on sunshine, but short on oil, and throwing away $6.5Bn to foreign oil producers every year is fairly dopey when there’s a much cheaper alternative of rechargeable, heavily subsidised, surplus Chinese stock available.
We are not short on oil estimated reserves are in to billions of barrels we just lack the brains to go extract it.....
Only a good idea if we have lots of available public chargers everywhere. We don't.
@@aussieideasman8498 The chargers are being rolled out everywhere, particularly now with pole mounted by Ausgrid. No one said in 1924 that because we had very few petrol stations that horses and bullocks would be a good idea.
@@seanlander9321 Watch my two video's where I road trip my Atto3. The current amount of working chargers is not only inadequate for the few EV's here, but is abysmal. They break down fast and they are repaired super-slowly, as well.
BTW, your analogy is correct, but I didn't disagree with what was not even mentioned. Getting the fuel station infrastructure happened, otherwise people would have complained. EV's are not a bad idea, and the adequate supply of chargers is a good idea. You need a class in comprehension.
@@steveclancy7832 There’s plenty of know-how here to tap oil, just look at Bass Strait, which is extraordinarily difficult. However our reserves are expensive, which makes it cheaper to import, but drains our wealth. Cheaper still is the sun that shines every day across our continent.
I think it's intresting to look at the gasoline sale in Norway.
Diesel is used for lorrys (big trucks), and semies. So, the sale of diesel will go on. But, what will happend when the gas cars reach 10-15%?
Already gas pumps are removed at the gas stations. Stations that had 6, have only 3, now.
And, you are starting to see more gas pumps out of order.
Looks like the technicians are going over to other jobs.
The stations them self are changing their names to energy stations, and are starting to look more like a fast food restaurant, with charging.
The new sales numbers for fossil fuel are comming now on friday.
As of September 2024, the number of different vehicle types registered in Norway is as follows:
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs): 754,303
Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs): 208,185 (198,707 petrol and 9,478 diesel)
Hybrids (HEVs): 156,203 (155,307 petrol and 896 diesel)
Internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs):
Petrol: 753,905
Diesel: 999,715.
These figures highlight Norway's rapid transition towards electric mobility, with BEVs now outnumbering petrol cars. However, diesel vehicles still dominate the overall fleet.
Petrol and diesel are ICE so EVs are not even close to exceeding the number of ICE vehicles.
One way to boost EV car numbers is how they do in Belgium 🇧🇪 via tax policy. 1 Tax structure incentivises companies to give most or all their employees company cars. They reduce their tax bill by doing so. 2 Then companies can impose green policies like EVs only, like our company does. In Belgium 60% of cars are company cars and these are turning all electric, fast. Easier to persuade politically sensitive companies, than individuals.
It's the same in Sweden. over 90% of EVs are company cars for their employees. Barely any private person buys an EV, except the wealthy.
@@AArata63 I live in the UK. I am not wealthy but comfortably off. I no longer own an ICE. I have wo EVs.
If you're planning to buy new buy EV. The price is almost the same as ICE.
@@PyroShields If it fits your specific needs then go for an EV. Seems most people have needs that match none EV solutions.
@@AArata63 What needs are non EV solutions?
Have a great trip. I really hope your wife recovers. You're a good man.
Yes brilliant that Norway has succeeded so well with EVs. However, it is somewhat hypocritical because they are massive exporters of oil and gas, so it could be said that they are exporting their pollution
I think we all ( Aussies) are sick and tired of being ripped off by fuel companies. Personally I need at least a hybrid to tow the caravan but I'd love to try and EV for the shorter travels.
Interesting times ahead.
Plentty of EVs that can tow are now available.
I enjoy and appreciate your realistic optimism Sam. Unfortunately we in the Eastern mainland islands are slow to embrace EVs as they still want to slobber over their EH and HD Holdens.
Best wishes for your missus.
I hope Shanna suffered as less pain from the treatment as possible. You are such a family man, Sam.
Greetings from Thailand
Best wishes for you and your family ;-)
Norway is exceptional for a number of reasons. Electricity is cheap and plentiful, it's a relatively small population, and the government is heavily involved in subsidising EV's. Don't expect this kind of EV uptake to be duplicated everywhere.
It ought to be if our grandchildren are to have a future.
Not stealing is not a subsidy. Tax is theft.
China has more EV's than ICE. Not sure what the population has to do with this. The main reason is can people afford them and 2nd would be infrastructure to charge.
I completely agree that buying a new gas/diesel/hybrid/plug-in hybrid will lose a lot of value, but used ones will sell because they’re going to be cheap. We will still go through a fairly long period of digesting current builds. But we’ll get there, I’m sure.
@@markmeachen6927 It will take time. They will become the vehicles of those who do not drive far and are near a gasoline/diesel station.
Make no mistake, with most EV charging occuring at home, gas stations will close. For example, locally, three of the old gas stations no longer sell gasoline or diesel. Now, they were put under by mega gas stations, but expect to see fewer pumps every year.
Either that or it will happen as with the transition from mobile to smartphones...and let's not forget that Robotaxis will kill the overall amount if cars on the streets.
I personally never owned a car although 50. Soebding so much money and time on a car I barely use 2% of my ownership? No thanks.
China already sells more EVs than ICE this year.
This is more EVs in service than ICE vehicles. China will get there, but not for years.
@@External2737
China and Norway have drastically different populations and car ownership levels, so the difference in the number of cars is vast.
1. China: As of recent estimates, China has about 340 million vehicles, with more than 300 million of these being passenger cars. Given China's population of around 1.4 billion, this reflects a growing middle class and expanding vehicle ownership.
2. Norway: Norway, with a population of around 5.4 million, has approximately 2.8 to 3 million cars. Norway is known for having a very high percentage of electric vehicles (EVs), with over 80% of new car sales being electric in recent years.
In summary, China has over 100 times more cars than Norway, due to the sheer difference in population size and economic scale.
@External2737 China is moving faster then you think, most Chinese cities I've visited have more EVs than ICE. I would say no more than another 5 years.
he is talking about the fleet as a whole so including all the vehicles that were sold in the last 40 years and driving around still. china is very far from this
@@passby8070 That is great news. Honestly, any new oil importer not going EV is strategically being silly.
Once the stock of ICEs starts to decrease, we will see gas stations close. That will further push drivers to EVs.
5 years is amazingly rapid.
I suspect Norway is a bit like Germany - a wealthy part of Europe that buys lots of new cars and exports lots of second hand ones. Further east in places like Georgia they import lots of second hand cars. So the second hand market is likely influenced by traders buying old cars and transporting them south and east.
Norway, a country rich from North Atlantic oil sales goes electric.
Get well soon!
I saw BYD truck which was a hybrid that uses the gas engine to charge the battery instead of using it to drive the truck and they say it can go over 500 miles before a charge. It was brought in from Mexico. Stellantis is now saying they have the same type of truck coming to the market.
20million vehicles in Australia.
1million new vehicles annually.
20years. For Australia.
Petroleum for road building and petrochemical industry and emergency backup and legacy ICE vehicles for decodes.
I live in Norway. Norway is a big oil and gas producer, and make big money on this. The goverment has no intention to stop doing that.
Norway is smart.
Norway doesn’t have VAT on electric cars. Cross the boarder to my country Sweden and you need to pay 200k extra for the cheapest Tesla model 3.
Hi Sam, Question the price of fuel just went down to $1.60 a litre do you think it will keep going down as EVs will be bought up and more EVs on the road less reasons for fuel so the price should go right down.
what color and spec do you get for your Xpeng?
It'll be like the switch to smartphones; the changeover will be swift. It'll be so EVs in five years. But the life of a gas car is 200k to 300k (often 15 to 20 years) and, so the last gas cars will largely be gone by 2045 to 2050 or so.
"Vi kan kjøpe hele Sverige om vi vill"
Get well soon! What color did you pick for your G6? I will be test driving a G6 today!
Spain IS a clear example where car dealers try not to sell EVs. They are too expemsive for Spanish pockets, the charging services are terrible and most people live in flats so they cannot charge at home.
So never tonsee that here in decades.
Norwegian loves electric cars, they are modern and faster, better in all ways. Now they plan to make all the big truck electric in a couple of years. They already been mapping out the charger stations in the most northern part of Norway, in the arctic. Estimated 6 out of 10 petrol stations are going to shut down soon.
There’s a dirty secret…they aren’t counting diesel vehicles! I know, I was shocked too! Give them a few more years. ❤
You see that edison motors guy? Those diesel eletric hybrids sound like a good solution for the long and heavy haulers ❤
Norway also taxes fossilcars, so the difference is substantial
US market is slow due to poor products, Dealerships reluctant to sell and Legacy car industry/Oil industry that has been hoping it will all fade away.
Minimal research has been carried out by the Legacy guys to make the token effort in manufacturing EV's.
That being said, the media are doing a fine job in the US to distribute negative information about EV's
My Mustang Mach e GT is a fine car, and I have always bought premium ICE cars. I sold my Porsche to buy this one. It certainly is not a "poor product"!
@@jamesdaniel947 It depends on what you are used too, when you compare it with the Tesla it is years behind on technology, the algorithm that controls the car, the efficiency, the weight compared to other EV's, the design and the way that Tesla can make a 20% profit from each EV compared with the 40% loss that Ford losses on each EV. VW takes 30 man hours to make a EV and Tesla 10 hours with the latest manufacturing techniques using giga castings replacing hundreds of parts with 2 castings, 1 front and back with structural battery in the middle.
Ford Mustang gets you from a to b well enough but it takes a Tesla to beat a Bugatti Veyron over a 1/4 mile.
CATL have 125,000 university grade engineers working in research of which 250 are Doctorate level. The US Legacy car industry is doing very little research.
Norway is a great example to the rest of the World.
Norway should make it to 50% EV fleet by 2030 and 100% between 2035 to 2040.
No ,by 2027 50% will be electrics,by 2030 100%
@@joaquindiaz7818 That's possible if they have an early retirement plan for the legacy fleet. Otherwise the transition rate is 6% per year assuming 15 year vehicle life. . .
Please get well soon, Quick recovery Shanni! (Spelling?)
Sales tax for ICE in Norway is 90%..that’s why people buy EVs…
Hey Sam looking at total oil consumption in Norway, it seems to not have decreased in the past few years but only stalled. Would be interesting to find out how that has happened.
Oil consumption was 221.000 barrels in 2018 and 192.000 barrels in 2022....
That's a significant decrease in just 4 years. Please check your sources.
But don't forget that the transport sector is not electrified yet.
In the USA everyone loves big pick ups (utes) and SUVs. Gasoline and diesel will dominate trucks for the near future. PHEVs make the most sense for cars here in the USA. High home ownership for home charging, plentiful gasoline, large country and most of all Range Anxiety.
There is a lot of compensating in the USA, and making bad choices that go against their individual best interests.
New cars maybe, I drove my Tesla 5k miles across Europe from UK & around Norway. There are still more ICE vehicles than electric, but just a matter of time.
We will be able to see how Gas stations handle the change in the amount of Fossil fuel vehicles on the roads as there has to come a point where, gas stations will start to close down.
Customers don't only buy fuel at a gas station, they also buy snacks and drinks and whatever other things they sell, which also makes them money, less customers means less products that have a shelf life like Pies and Donuts as well as Milk drinks like Iced Coffees or Iced Chocolate.
I am sure there will be a UA-cam or two talking about the plight of gas stations in areas that are getting a higher density of EV's to ICE.
We all saw what happened to Video stores once another system comes that is better, as well as those of us old enough to remember when we rode Horses to get about and had no telephone or TV let alone Electricity lol.
Each time something new comes along the previous options either die or become niche businesses and only one or two survive, like your local Blacksmith, our last one closed about ten years ago.
No one cared about the poor franchisee that thought they got a great money-making opportunity only to find slowly but surely less and less customers coming through their doors.
I think in a very few years we will see the same thing with Service Stations, or Gas stations as the Yanks say :).
The next ten years will be a very interesting period and that isn't even taking into account Robots and A.I, it will either be a huge destructive period as far as jobs go, or it will be a fantastic change where people no longer need to work and can enjoy life to the fullest and money will be a thing of the past, I could just see wealthy people being happy with no longer being special or treated like royalty by Police and Judges.
So there are 3 states (KY, WV, and WY) where power is so polluted where you’re actually better off with an old hybrid and investing in solar. We also have states where the speed limits are 130 kph in mountainous areas, where there are even area where you can’t get fuel for 100 KM and those governments don’t see a need to put in EV charging, even though there is large amounts of federal land for camping and more.
Just because Norway has more EVs than most countries, that does not make it a clean green Country.
Norway has an oil industry producing 203,000 barrels of crude oil distillation per day and processes crude oil into various products, such as fossil fuels and industrial chemicals.
Norway has a significant mining industry producing various raw materials, including ground calcium carbonate, flake graphite, olivine, silicon, iron ore, and titanium minerals. Most of Norway’s mines and quarries are located along its coastline.
Although there have been many protests from scientist and environmental organizations against deep-sea mining, Norway has opened its continental shelf to commercial deep-sea mineral exploration, aiming to extract critical minerals like copper, zinc, cobalt, and rare earth elements.
Many organizations are concerned about the potential irreversible damage to marine ecosystems from deep-sea mining.
Norway use mostly hydropower and many think hydropower does not cause pollution. Hydropower does cause pollution. The reservoir behind the dam releases CO2 and dangerous methane into the atmosphere 24 hours a day non -stop. The gases are released by ebullition rising to the surface and degassing when water passes through a turbine or pump. The amount of co2 released by the reservoir is not as great as co2 released from a coal fired power plant.
Hydropower does cause significant damage to the river system as well as wildlife.
Protectionism is going to break the US. The US needs to embrace change.
For sure, it is gonna break the US OEMs, because while we dawdle with MAGA boycotts, and Trump's tariffs, the Chinese technology waits for no one as they are moving forward at "Lightning" speed!
The USA isn’t going back in time, ev was around before gas cars. I will choose death over ev.
And it has many people who can charge and can wait for charging (of course, Thai people can't wait like that)
The US has always been very slow in technology adoption and is many years behind almost everyone else. I live in a village in the middle of nowhere in the UK but have fibre to the property giving me 1Gb internet. Apparently there are places in the US where these speeds are unavailable. Quite startling I know but that is how it is. Slow adoption of EVs is inevitable. There are still communities there using horse and carts.
Hmmm, well I live in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky, and I have 5G everywhere...
Title of the video is totally wrong. He says its only 25% EV!
The whole video is all totally wrong.
Norway penalises ICE cars with punitive taxes, tariffs and penalties for decades already.
Be difficult to buy petrol soon in Norway
In Norway gas car resale values will go to $0 by 2030. In California this will happen in 2035. Bring it !😊
New cars - are driving more and more often than old cars - and hence more there are more EV’s on the road in % than EV’s as a % of total amount of cars.
How ironic that Norway built its properity and EV boom on oil ;-)
Oil money is not the reason. The reason is cheap hydroelectricity and very high tax rate on ICE cars. A lack of tax/theft is not a subsidy.
@@steffengustavsen9678 TRy searching again where the money for the norwegian fund came from ;-) The rest is just EV fanboy cheering reasoning.
@@KulySoft Norway has always been a rich country. The oil money mostly goes to investing in US stocks. Denmark has higher wages than Norway now so for them importing EVs are cheaper. Denmark also has no nuclear, no hydroelectricity and is still 80% renewable electricity production.
@@steffengustavsen9678 Is not true. They by being EU top oil producers in the 80s allowed them to diversify in order to avoid the dutch disease is one thing. Even today Norway si second to Rusia on gas extraction. The idea that irritates me is the hypocrisy. They've built the wealth on oil then gas, now they preach "green". By that is the "West" for you. Hypocritical to the core.
@@KulySoft What does that have to do with EVs? No tax/theft is not a subsidy. There are taxes on EVs btw. Road tolls, yearly tax, 60% tax on electricity, and VAT on EVs costing more than 500 NOK. Norway is reducing oil and gas consumption and that is what matters.
In 2023, the import value of fossil fuel in Australia was approximately forty billion Australian dollars. $40billion.
We have so much Hydro Power. Perfect. No emissions to create electricity
Hi Sam, any chance you could use your network to look into, hopefully, lowering respiratory disease diagnosis in countries with a higher percentage of EV's? I'm anticipating billions of dollars getting saved in future, simply because less people have a reason to get sick! I hear the current numbers are several hundred million people worldwide.
All the best.
I retired from EPA air quality enforcement and the scientific studies on the effects of air pollution on respiratory disease are well established over the last 50+ years. We ignore these findings at our own peril!
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It's easy to achieve this when you are one of the richest countries on earth that is floating on an ocean of oil. That also means that whatever climatic benefits they have reaped from the EV transition they have more than offset with their oil sales. Norway is part of the problem, not the solution.
yep. Golf courses have more EV’s than gas cars.
Gas and diesel fumes dont cause cancer or any other health problems.
Thailand plan to have all EVs in 2030.
Now the ICE cars are not selling. The first BYD cars roll out from their factory next year, that he end of new ICE cars sale.
Well, if you are going to lose money buying gas ore hybrid than there is going to have to be a very good incentive to move to the EVs. That's what Obama did to get people to sell their older cars and is what will have to be done in the US for some time. Maybe they should take the subsidy they give the oil companies and use that for the car and solar, wind, and battery industries. Donor money is blocking this until they do something about that.
É só má língua contra os carros elétricos. Em particular com a marca Polestar.
Norway is a wealthy country compared to the rest of the world.
All that socialism works...plus, they are a lot happier!
@@jamesdaniel947Its not because of socialism, theres plenty of shithole countries that have similar communist policies as norway, russia is a good example. It is also a communist country full of highly educated non religious white people so it should be an america sized norway but isnt
What's the population in Norway? 5.5 million? That's less population than in a city in US, give me a break will ya?
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There are those who believe oil production will decrease because of the EV. There has been an increase in oil production, not a decrease. If you want an electric car then oil production must increase.
The reason is that an electric car uses more products made from oil than an ICE car. Add to this the huge amounts of fossil fuels consumed to mine the minerals for the EV battery. Have you not heard the expression “An EV is an oil well on wheels.” The oil companies couldn't care less if all vehicles in the entire world were electric, because oil is used to produce millions of other items besides fuel for ICE cars. Your computer and keyboard for example and the hundreds of items in and around your home.
EV fanboy, the sales tax for ICE cars in Norway is nearly 90% which is a big reason to buy electric cars, plus don't forget that Norway is a big electricity producer by hydro as well. ICE cars from Norway are easy to sell in Central Europe at a high price, especially well maintained and low millage ... EV cars in depreciation lose up to 60 % in one year and I see no technical reason why not ... the reason for battery issues and expensive repairs and easy catastrophic damage which leads to salvage ... each 100k you need to change all seals/ball bearings for your electric drive motors ... if not you will need replace electric motors due to failure because housing inner surface will rust and lose conductivity ... problem is that these parts are cheap but to replace them you dissemble/assemble all undercarriage including all hoses which takes easy a couple of days etc. Consider BMW in comparison low maintenance car. The second problem is batteries ... no compatible third-party batteries for most cars except the Nissan Leaf/N200 or Toyota Prius... The second existing battery packs aren`t reparable just repurposable ...
So people on Norway buy EVs because they love new tech and not because the government imposes 90% on ICE cars…this channel takes EV propaganda to next level…
@@kalex381 if you impose a 90% tax on the personal car (it is normal for Scandinavia, similar is for Sweden and very tough in Finland)... and there is an exception you will pick that one as long it fits your needs ... Yes there are a lot of very rich people there and as any rich people they try new technology... but the number of such people is very limited ... never forget the happiness of mine Norwegian acquaintance who manages to save enough to buy a new astra gtc ... after taxes for 50k (around 30k in EU ins similar configuration) ... imagine that this person instead of paying 50k for a new economy car can get new one for just 30k ... and have spare 20k for electricity/insurance/maintenance? in such case being the reasonable person I would buy electric just for the price as long it provides majority comforts include range at least 300 km in winter which majority of 4 door electric cars provides ... Plus Norwegians had from the beginning of 20th-century reliable abandon hydro energy production in fjords ... Electric car makes sense consider current qualities and Norwegian conditions include climate/resource availability/taxes ...
@@occasionalquest you are right…If I faced with a 90% tax on a ICE car and little tax on an EV, I would buy the EV as well and save ton of cash…The least thing I want to do is to pay 90% tax on a disposable item…Consumers in Norway are forced to buy an EV because of punitive taxation for alternatives. And if tax is not working as method, outright bans on sale or use of ICE cars will come into force.
I think that there are a number of reasons that the US is slow to adopt EVs. I’m not sure what the most important reasons are but a quick list should help. First and foremost the US has an important car industry to protect. Major manufacturers including Toyota, Honda, GM and Ford cannot make EVs profitable so refuse to build them and sell them. Many Americans believe their Japaneses vehicles are far better than their American counterparts. They are reluctant to change brands even if EVs may be better. Next in line is an enormous amount of FUD as spun by big oil and national media. Big oil hate EVs for obvious reasons and national media hate the fact that Tesla refuses to spend money on advertising. Throw in the obsolete excuses concerning range anxiety and initial cost and it’s easy to understand what’s going on. Lately there has been a surge of sales of hybrid vehicles. Notice that is the Japanese and Legacy auto pushing these vehicles. No surprise. Last is the complicated relationship between Musk and the US Government. Joe Biden has treated Musk poorly. Various departments of the government including Justice, FAA, NASCA and IRS are all guilty on dragging Tesla through the mud and slowing EV adoption. What is crazy is that Elon and the government should be working together to solve major issues including climate change, energy independence, clean air, electric grid issues, internet access and space exploration to name a few areas of cooperation. It doesn’t help that Elon is Elon and at times is his own worst enemy. Taken together any of these issues can slow down EV adoption. Throw in a so called leader that claims climate change is a hoax and you get quite a brew that needs to be addressed.
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USA - Besides slow charging times, the electric grid will need upgrading/modification to support all the electric vehicles if there is a rapid adoption of EVs, and few charging facilities exist in public places (those that do exist in shopping centers/at hotels, etc are almost always occupied, especially for overnight charging. Resale values on used EVs are atrocious compared to an equivalent gasoline-powered vehicle, repair shops are minimal and usually have long delays for service, auto insurance costs are far higher than for an equivalent ICE vehicle. Also realize that most vehicles sold in the USA are large trucks or SUV's with towing capabilities far beyond that of an electric vehicle (the Tesla Cybertruck is considered something of a novelty, not a real truck for daily work use). I can't see gasoline-powered vehicles disappearing within the next 20 years from roads in the USA.
Norway paid for these EV incentives with oil and gas money from North Sea rigs. Just saying.
Norway and Australia no car industries. EVs are affordable to the masses.
You plugged your Tesla preorder once or twice, you plug the xpeng every day with out fail and you haven't even driven it? What for if you receive nothing... or purely for the fact they watch every video?
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for your content Sam.
Dear Viking, Norway has and is selling more oil and gas per capita than most OPEC countries.
That is why they can afford to subsidize 50% of any EVs cost for the buyers. Yes, 50% of the price is paid by subsidize.
and they will keep selling till people stop needing it. They are not holding a gun to peoples head saying buy my oil
getting mine in next week. Can i show them your message and will they give me any money back?
Subsidies comes from taxing combustion cars ,not from oil ,study more ,ignorant
Wrong! The EV's are not subsidized, just less taxed.
Fiberstein.
Electric vehicles drop like rocks in Value in Canada and the U.S opposite or Norway. That is the main reason nobody wants to buy them. I compromised with a Lexus Hybrid. Love it.
Hope your wife gets well soon
Over my dead body will I ever buy a EV
How old are you? My bet is that you and the other MAGAs will be driving a Chinese EV in 6 years...for most everybody else it will take 5.
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@@jamesdaniel947 Over my dead body will I be voting for trump
You get the US incentives wrong. You have to be rich enough to owe the government the amount of the incentive to use it. You also have to be able to wait to get it back at the end of the year. Not paying sales tax is up front, so you lower what you pay and have to finance to lower your payment.
No federal applies right away, and the 3 and Y are price comparable to other cars in their class. Then, depending on the state, one (except despair) lives in even more subsidies except the backwards states of the southeast. Dealers groups are liars cheats and conmen. And, yes, I have fact sold cars... I have more than a few clues.
Are you sure that's not the 'weight' benefit a business owner can get for registering his/her vehicle as a business vehicle if its over a certain weight (I believe its 5,500 lbs) regardless if its EV, gasoline, diesel, or other? I'm under the impression that the USA Federal (national) government incentives were eliminated on EVs. Some states have their own EV incentive programs, but not the federal government.
How about talking about a country who doesn't export their pollution and isn't China that has had success in selling electric cars?. Then I would be impressed.
Easy, Thailand.
Iceland ,sweden,denmark,finland,nederland, Nepal,ethiopy,tailand, Portugal,estonia,....there are many
@@joaquindiaz7818 Well, Sweden do export a lot of polluting vehicles.
@Mixos_place Exporting pollution? What do you mean by that?
@@okklidokkli In my opinion Norway are hypocrites as they sell most of their oil to other countries to pullute.If they had any balls and didn't speak with a forked tongue they would stop selling any oil.
Nah not yet. A lot of those are simply ICEs with a little battery.
Wrong.
As of September 2024, the number of different vehicle types registered in Norway is as follows:
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs): 754,303
Plug-in hybrids (PHEVs): 208,185 (198,707 petrol and 9,478 diesel)
Hybrids (HEVs): 156,203 (155,307 petrol and 896 diesel)
Internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs):
Petrol: 753,905
Diesel: 999,715.
These figures highlight Norway's rapid transition towards electric mobility, with BEVs now outnumbering petrol cars. However, diesel vehicles still dominate the overall fleet.
@@thyristo PHEV and HEV = ICE with a small battery.
America has cheap gasoline and they have the mentality of powerful engines, Europe is expensive gasoline - exp. UK £1.39 per litre, but electric overnight 1 kwh costs £0.07 so 50 kwh £3.5 which is a very good price.
Norway anyway they went electric a long time ago, they are the country of 1000 lakes so they they produce a lot of electricity.
Congratulations Norway and I hope that Europe will also come behind but the UK will be in second place after Norway ))))
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Australia has the same latitudes as the Sahara Desert.
People are surprised how bright Australia is.
Cold latitude artists were surprised by the brightness of Greece and Spanish sky's.
Australia is the same, but bigger.
Australia should have a robotic PV panels factory working 24/7/365.
Australia should have robotic BV, battery vehicles, manufacturing 24/7/365.
V2G BVs oversized battery parked 23hrs every day.
Only 15% of Australia’s energy is electricity.
Grid electricity.
The grid is a $TRILLIONS infrastructure investment but is toooo small in capacity.
7 times toooo small.
Rooftop PV is breaking the grid now and grid big batteries are under construction to help.
With more than 20 million V2G BVs, selfparking selfplug-in Australia will have more than enough battery capacity.
PAID FOR BY THE CUSTOMERS.
Some people are brain dead and are lost in the past.
The reason European countries adapted diesel fueled cars had nothing to do with emissions, it was because diesel cars had better fuel economy
And way worse emissions. Also, diesel costs more in the US gas. Has for almost decade if not longer ever RED diesel cost more than gas. For the huge number of non-americans RED diesel is for agri cultural use only and is more polluting. Thus why it is agribusiness use only and is always far away from major population centers. Because it has zero road tax. But whatevers.
@@GrigoriZhukov You are talking about the situation in the US ,American car drivers never did buy a lot of diesel cars and why is the diesel red ? I suspect because it is used for agricultural use and therefore not taxed.
The fuel is not any more polluting or different to any other diesel fuel.
@davidboskett5581 Actually, it is more polluting. Bought less? You could say better they stopped buying junk heaps. More fore repairs more for fuel. Oh, sure, in the 80s and 90s, the fuel was slightly cheaper. And my grand.othe owned a brand new 1980 Oldsmobile 88. My uncle had a 1980 Chevrolet pickup. Both had the 6.2l diesel. Both after wearing those in less than 200km. Never bought another diesel. But do go, I recall several Isuzu pickups that were diesel. Similar results.
Chinese evs are good but it's not the same with that govt.
Norway heavily taxes gas vehicles not to mention they subsidize the hell out of EVs. It’s easier for them cause they have the infrastructure and they are a very small country. The country if Norway is smaller than New York City
They thus have fewer resources!
Well done for Norway. This is a seed for the rest of the EU to adopt EVs.
And?
Norway is smaller than New York city? What map are you looking at? Norway is huge compared to New York city!
@@External2737
Norway has and is selling more oil and gas per capita than most OPEC countries.
That is why they can afford to subsidize 50% of any EVs cost for the buyers. Yes, 50% of the price is paid by subsidize.
@@karlwest437
He meant population :)
Hoping your wife will recover.
We need to get rid of EVS and switch to gas cars.
Love to see a carbon tax
So Norways 50 dams took about 1 Billion tons of Concrete and 4 Billion pounds of steel to construct. Rough math of say 100 lbs of CO2 per ton of concrete + similar per pound of steel and you get a total of 600 billion lbs of CO2.= burning 30 billion gallons of gasonline. The tiny population of Norway has about 800,000 BEVs so if half of these dams were devoted to powering cars 15 billion gallons of gas/800,000 is 15,000 gallons per car! So if a dam needs replacement every 100 year thats still 150 gallons per car per year; at 50 mpg thats7,500 miles a year; plus BEVs take much more energy to make so you actually use more CO2 in Norway - Brilliant.
Get rid of EVs keep ICEs, 👍
Invest in buggy whips...it is the coming thing!
Robik, we get most of our electricity from our solar panels. And when home batteries drop in price enough, two years or so, we will be off grid. When we remodeled this house, we replaced the propane heat, dryer and range with electric. Home heating and cooling and water heating are heat pump. My point with all of this is that gas cars are actually a problem for us! The nearest gas station is a 14 mile round trip away. And being rural, gas is very expensive. But I can power our used Chevy Bolt for free at home. As savings from home energy paid for the solar, electricity for the car is free. More and more of us are breaking free of the corrupt electricity and petrol cartels and going energy independent.