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Lessons From Norway’s Journey To Becoming The Global Leader In EV Adoption

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In 1990, a CO2 tax was implemented and the country began to focus on establishing a greener transport system by promoting Norwegian EV production and adoption. Let’s take a look at the Volkswagen Golf versus the Volkswagen e-Golf as an example of how the tax scheme works in practice. Investing in Infrastructure.

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Driving the sales of electric vehicles

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Most notably, in April 2020 a raft of tax related changes were brought in, which made huge changes to National Insurance and Benefit in Kind treatment of EVs. For more on this see our tax blog [link]. The government has already started to roll out quite significant incentives to switch from ICEs to EVs.

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ITF analysis finds that societal costs for electric cars and vans range from €7K to €12K more than fossil-fueled equivalents

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The ITF calculation ignores taxes on fuel (as from society’s point of view these are a transfer rather than a net cost); includes subsidies; and accounts for air pollution impacts. intractably linked to fuel efficiency improvements in petrol and diesel cars—at least to around 2020. Gains in fuel efficiency will have a.

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A just transition

Clean Car

Benjamin Franklin noted that there was nothing certain in life except death and taxes. Few people are going to drop thirty grand on a petrol driven car a couple of years before their sale is banned and their consequent resale value plummets. We all know it is coming and probably sooner than we think.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

Do you support the target to make 30 per cent of the light vehicle fleet zero-emissions vehicles by 2035, and the associated actions? . The New Zealand light vehicle fleet, including light commercial vans and trucks, makes up 80 per cent of our transport emissions. . There are 3.5 million passenger vehicles in New Zealand.

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Learn How India’s EV Manufacturers Are Promoting Green Mobility

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Due to the many attractive advantages EVs has, the public transportation requirements in India like fleet vehicles, E-buses, 3 wheelers, 2 wheelers, and E-bikes play a major role in the mass EV adoption. E-Buses/Fleet Buses. Let’s take a look at the major EV categories and the leading players who are electrifying Indian roads.