[SmokingJoe]

. In South Korea, for example, 23 percent of buyers anticipate next buying an electric. In China it's 17 percent.

In Norway, the market share for Electric Vehicles is ALREADY a massive 80% of all cars sold. Top EV seller in Norway is of course Tesla, where Musk is pretty popular.

[Varsity Flight]

Norway 🇳🇴 🛩

United States ✈

[Alberta's Child]

Norway has a population of less than 5.5 million people. That's about two-thirds the size of New York City.

More than 20% of Norway's population lives in the Oslo metro area.

Electric vehicles are ideally suited for densely populated urban areas where the average "suburb" has a population that is comparable to one of NYC's outer boroughs.

Interestingly, I believe the auto industry is looking to move heavily into electric vehicles for one simple reason: They expect to be selling far more cars in Asia than in the U.S. over the next 25-30 years.

[Olog-hai]

Who to believe? The Reuters article below says 65 percent. And the government is distorting the market by taxing gasoline cars and “exempting” battery cars . . . they’d better pray in Norway that their grid is never overloaded and/or goes down.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/electric-cars-take-two-thirds-norway-car-market-led-by-tesla-2022-01-03/

[Afterguard]

Norway is about the size of Montana and most population lives along the coasts. Lots of ferry travel between coastal cities. Not a lot cross country travel required.