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Out of all the places in the world, I would assume Norway would be the last to do so.

Does it make sense? Will they revert the decision after complaints? Hard to tell if this ferry is used by locals or is it only some touristy thing (for rented cars).

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This is not the only company servicing this route, this is a new company added to this route a few years ago, and the older company are still allowing electric cars according to the linked origin article at NRK. The route is also not a local one, running along most of the coast of the whole country, between the very north and pretty far south, so I don't really know if there is that much traffic only travelling a stop or two. Definitely a bunch of tourist traffic though.

> Hard to tell if this ferry is used by locals or is it only some touristy thing (for rented cars).

Both, it's the coastal norwegian route. However they're not car ferries, they're passenger ferries which can carry a few cars on the bottom deck. The standard payload is a few dozen cars but several hundred passengers.

The entire trip from end to end takes 6 days, but there are around 30 stops.

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