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Not really. if your choice is a better ICE car at the same price point, why get an EV that has to stop intermittently and has failure modes like broken chargers. It has to be as good. And better

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Thankfully they are often better. 95% of new car sales are EVs in my area.

It took a few years to get there, people don't necessarily know immediately what they like best.

https://elbilstatistikk.no/

Norway is an absolute outlier, driven exclusively by tax incentives.

In the rest of the EEA, EVs sales are plummeting.

https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations...

Do you have a source about “exclusively“?

Have you looked at the taxes versus incentives for EVs vs ICEs in Norway? If you need a new car and one is triple the cost (because the other is exempt from fees) what are you going to buy?

But yeah, it's for the environment, surely. Reverse the policy and see what happens.

I agree it's a strong incentive, but I'm not sure it's the only one. One example was during the cold wave last winter. ICE owners struggled quite a bit more than EV owners. You also have the problem that ICE vehicles are quite slow and laggy, unless you spend a lot of money on performance ICE vehicles but then they usually tend to be loud and uncomfortable.

Good and better by which metrics?

Different people have different requirements.

Yeah, the amount of issues I hear about with chargers not working, and everything relying on using some app? I'm not installing a smartphone app to charge a battery! So far I'm not feeling too tempted about electric vehicles. I'll be happy to find something that avoids these shortcomings though!

It's not a technology issue, it's a service issue. If ICE cars were invented today, you'd need an app at a gas station too.

No doubt. I hope there's more pushback against that crap.

EU regulations require charging stations to accept card payments by 2027.

Nice, that's really good to hear! Hopefully other jurisdictions follow the lead there!

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