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by janvidar 3673 days ago
The average car tax in Norway is on average 102%. Electric cars, and Hydrogen cars have no tax.

The effect is that the Tesla model S cost roughly the same as a BMW 5-series, or Mercedes E-class.

Non-zero-emission cars aren't exactly financially beneficial already. However, long-term they would want to tax ZE cars as well (at least the standard 25% VAT), so hence the fossil cars will need to become even more expensive.