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Norway leads the world in electric vehicle (EV) adoption, with EVs making up nearly 90% of new car sales in 2024 and over 30% of all cars on its roads.

This shift, driven by decades of policies like tax exemptions for EVs, higher taxes on fossil fuel cars, and perks like free parking, has put Norway on track to phase out new fossil fuel car sales by 2025.

The country's wealth, renewable hydroelectric power, and extensive charging network have enabled its EV revolution, serving as a model for other nations.

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[–] zeezee@slrpnk.net 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

So now that Norway has 99% renewables and will soon reach 99% electric vehicles, they'll stop drilling oil in the North Sea, right?

They're best positioned for the Contraction and Convergence strategy so continuing to pump and sell oil is antithetical to their sustainability stance.

Unless they're creating a walled garden while letting everyone else around them burn - tho let's hope that's not the case as once the AMOC collapses and brings the likes of 160km/h bomb cyclones to it's territories it wouldn't matter how green they've been.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That means Norway will sell the fossil fuel they don't use to somewhere else.

[–] zeezee@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

As I said in another comment in this thread:

Now if they truly believed that fossil fuels were needed for a sustainable transition - then surely they would give out their trillions of oil and gas revenue to countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh to help them rebuild from the environmental disasters they're experiencing to deploy more sustainable infrastructure and housing.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Not specifically about Norway, but richer countries are already providing funds to poorer countries to combat climate change, but it goes to vanity projects and other corruption.

The climate fund is unfortunately a money laundering scheme. Nicaragua is right to be apprehensive of the 2015 Paris climate change accords, believing it doesn't go far enough. There is no actual legal mechanism to hold countries accountable for missing climate targets. Now that I think about it, Trump pulling out of the 2015 Paris climate deal during his first term is not necessarily a loss, since everyone is doing nothing since the accords were signed. In spite of the small climate wins, every current year is always the hottest year until the subsequent year records the hottest global temperature, always beating the previous year's record.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

When it comes to globally warming they really can't lose.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago

Not true, Norway is remarkably warm compared to similar latitudes (i.e. Canada) due to the Gulf Stream and the resulting coastal current. If that collapses the sea will freeze and Norway will no longer be the mild climate it is now.