"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
06/16/2016 at 17:33 • Filed to: Norway, Statistics
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
06/16/2016 at 17:33 • Filed to: Norway, Statistics | 0
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Norway, as we know, is a country that makes so much money selling fossil fuels to other people that it can afford elaborate incentives to persuade its own citizens to buy cars that don’t use the said fossil fuels. It was the first country in Europe to buy Teslas in numbers and reading comments by Tesla fans would suggest that every second Norwegian was buying a Model S and that it had become a promised land for Elon Musk.
True?
No, actually. You can look up the figures for the year to date !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (scroll down to the end) but we can see that Tesla seem to be going backwards. Sales for the period to May 2015 were 2,108 for a share of 3.5% but for the same period this year sales are down to 957 and 1.5%.
Mind you the Norwegians are otherwise deeply devoted to electrons. The Leaf is the third bestseller preceded by the Mitsubishi Outlander, usually sold as a PHEV. Yes, Mitsubishi fans, there is a country where your favoured make sells.
So there we have it. Tesla down, Mitsubishi up. Who’d have thought?
Have an Outlander PHEV.
BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
> Cé hé sin
06/16/2016 at 17:49 |
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The Netherlands used to devour PHEVs/EVs in a similar fashion, until the government incentives were cut down at the end of 2014. This lead to a run on Teslas, Outlanders PHEVs and V60 PHEVs. There were lots filled with plated cars, which were registered in 2014 for these incentives, however could not be delivered to the customers yet due to the amount of cars being more than the dealerships normaly have to deal with. A similar thing could be seen with diesel Peugeot 308s and Volvo V40s, when the tarif to drive one of these privately as a company car went up from 14 to 21 percent at the end of 2015.
Incentives/benefits do weird things with people.
Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Cé hé sin
06/16/2016 at 17:53 |
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Dude.. it should be “Statistikk fra Norge”. Don’t mix it up with Swedish :P
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Cé hé sin
> Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
06/16/2016 at 17:57 |
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Pah, Norwegian, Swedish.....same difference ( I was told by a Norwegian that they’re much the same so it must be true!)
But I’ve changed it! Just not into Norwegian....
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Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh
> Cé hé sin
06/16/2016 at 18:03 |
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Hehe, Norwegians from the eastern part of Norway understands and speak swedish pretty much close to fluent.. Swedes have a hard time understanding Norwegian though. But the Icelandic/Norse thing is a nice touch though ;)
duurtlang
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
06/16/2016 at 18:06 |
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The way our government has transformed car taxation in the last 5-10 years is really horrific. In a desperate greenwashing attempt they pissed away a lot of money while achieving nothing tangibly positive. Maybe on paper, but not in the real world. All while our car landscape has become rather homogeneous and mostly just plain sad. They also strangled classic cars (<40 years old), their owners and businesses who used to thrive on them. The incompetence is appalling. In the end everybody lost and there are no winners.
This is coming from someone who actually supports measures that curb harmful emissions in the real world. I’ve got a masters degree in biology for f sake. I just can’t stand the horrible greenwashing.
Sorry for the rant :)
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BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
> duurtlang
06/16/2016 at 18:31 |
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I fully agree with your rant. It sometimes looks like the government only focusses on cars as the big evil, however those containerships are way more polluting, as are the gas/oil/coal plants. The incompetence also shows from the constant change of policy, canceling the very thing that sort of helps, like the electric car incentives, which returns the focus of the buyers to combustion engined cars again.
As an almost owner of a bachelors degree in automotive engineering, I must say i’m a bit pissed that the blame is always put on us, with the pressure to solve the pollution problem. I do believe electric or otherwise lower emission cars are the future, though this won’t solve the whole pollution problem.
bhtooefr
> Cé hé sin
06/17/2016 at 05:56 |
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Honestly, it’ll be interesting to see what happens with the Outlander PHEV once it launches in the US (they’re revising things to make it deliver more power, and avoid starting the ICE during the EPA cycle, as I understand). It’ll be the first accessibly-priced crossover with a plug in the US market, AFAIK. (I mean, the Cayenne S e-hybrid exists, but that’s not accessible, and nor is the Tesla Model X.)
A lot of efficient cars have had trouble selling lately, but the Outlander PHEV will be a decent test of whether that’s because nobody cares about efficiency, or whether people want efficiency but demand the crossover form factor.
ciscokidinsf
> bhtooefr
10/09/2016 at 04:33 |
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It’s Mitsubishi’s “Chinese Democracy” - The Outlander PHEV was supposed to be available in the US in.... 2014... now they are saying 2018...maybe. By then Mr. Ghosn will just have gutted the company and will wear the skin of Mitsubishi over crappy re-badged Sentras, Altimas and Muranos