General Motors hired actor and comedian Will Ferrell for its Super Bowl commercial, in which the company promotes its Ultium platform. Norway as the market leader for electric cars? They don’t want to put up with that in the USA!
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Electric car drivers in the capital of Norway must now pay for charging. Oslo has started the conversion of about 1,300 public charging points in the city to be able to charge a fee. The aim is not so much to cash in but to keep EVs from parking for free without charging.
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Learnings from Norway’s EV success could be implemented anywhere, believes Christina Bu from Norway’s EV association (Norsk Elbilforening). She took a seat on the electrive.com couch powered by P3 at the EVS30 for a more in-depth analysis.
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“It’s too early to remove the fiscal incentives. The market isn’t competitive enough yet.”
Christina Bu, general secretary of the the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association, is calling for keeping the pro EV policies as they remain the strongest argument for EV buyers with 50% of them stating saving money as their main reason for buying.
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“The share of electric power will increase, and the combustion will be downsized so that you have more opportunity to drive electrically.”
Wolfgang Ziebart, Jaguar Land Rover’s head of product development, on the possibility of building hybrids or EVs. For the latter he sees less potential in the urban market but for “wealthy families being attracted to electric vehicles” as a second or third car option.
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“The small, plastic-box electric cars are a thing of the past. The uptake has nothing to do with the Norwegian psyche or love of the environment, it came when people started to realise there were huge savings to be made.”
Economic not ecological concerns are driving Norway’s EV boom claims Christina Bu from the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association, when looking at the country’s numerous incentives.
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This is a statement of an undisclosed Nissan manager about Tesla’s decision to make its patents available to other manufacturers.
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