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by threemux 962 days ago
The bar for "good enough" is artificially lower in Norway when it comes to EVs. I'm not sure if you're aware just how huge the subsides are for EVs in Norway. They are trying to reduce these a bit and I'll be interested to see how that affects purchasing patterns. You're exempted from a punishing 25% VAT that gas cars are subject to first and foremost. Also, electricity is very cheap in Norway due to their abundance of hydropower.

https://elbil.no/english/norwegian-ev-policy/
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bryanlarsen 962 days ago
I've got relatives in Norway and Denmark. All the ones in my generation can afford gasoline cars even though they cost ~twice as much. They would drive gasoline cars if electric cars sucked. They don't.
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threemux 962 days ago
Electric cars would have to suck pretty bad for someone to spend twice as much, I'm not sure that anecdote is saying what you seem to think it is.

They might be saying "In an ideal world I'd drive a gas car, but the electric car is good enough where I'd rather not pay double." I don't think the person I was responding to was saying they "sucked", just that they had drawbacks.

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bryanlarsen 962 days ago
A $25,000 base Civic is a fabulous car yet $50,000 cars are far more popular in the US.
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