Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

Norway leads electric vehicle (EV) adoption, boasting the highest share of new EV purchases worldwide. To learn from its experience, let’s look back through Norway’s 30-year journey to becoming an EV giant: it all started with a mission to curb the country’s CO2 emissions. Curbing CO2 Emissions with Electric Transport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2012

In line with strategic decarbonization goals, governments have provided research and development funding and, in many cases, direct and sometimes substantial purchase subsidies. personal or societal expenses), as well as how far the car is driven and how much the battery costs to produce. —“Electric Cars: Ready for prime time?”.

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Push EVs

MAY 9, 2023

Although these introduced some BEV taxes for the first time, mostly falling on heavy and expensive BEV models, taxes fell harder still on vehicles with CO2 emissions. Recall that new tax changes have applied from January 1st. Yet this is unlikely to put a noticeable dent in Norway’s EV transition in the medium to long term.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 29, 2022

Many studies show that battery electric vehicles (BEV) produce approximately 80% less CO2 emissions over their lifetime (including manufacturing and recycling) compared to an internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV). Businesses in NZ are setting new targets for their fleets to reduce CO2 emissions and driving down fleet costs.

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Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

By signalling to New Zealanders that fossil fuel vehicles are being phased out, they can factor this into their decision-making about their next car purchase. Successful schemes should be designed to capture CO2, fuel economy, NOx and safety benefits. It is significantly more cost effective to install charge points in new builds.

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