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Peak fossil fueled based vehicle ownership

Posted on May 2, 2018 by nradmin
Norway’s policy on electric vehicles has led to a tipping point of fossil fueled based vehicle ownership by households. Battery electric vehicles reached in 2017 a market share of 20 per cent in Norway, and a fleet share of 5.1 per cent. This impressive development is the result of large...

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Norwegian Electric Vehicle Owners – Who Are They?

Posted on March 2, 2015 by nradmin
Norwegian authorities have introduced a number of incentives for EV diffusion, in order to support a transition to environmentally friendly transport. As a result, Norway has become the country with the highest number of electric cars in the world per capita. But who are they, these EV-owners? And...

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Conference: Breakthrough for Electric Vehicles

Posted on February 27, 2015 by nradmin
Breakthrough for Electric vehicles! – Learnings from a European full-scale laboratory. International Conference in Oslo, Norway 11-12 June 2015. Electric vehicles (EVs) are a hot issue in Europe among transport policy makers, manufacturers and users. In Norway generous incentives have created...

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Reforms in Vehicle Registration Tax Can Reduce CO2-emissions

Posted on April 7, 2014 by nradmin
The Norwegian Parliaments target to reduce new passenger vehicles average CO2-emission to 85 g/km (type-approval value) in 2020, can be achieved by reforms in the vehicle registration tax. In three out of four scenarios, described in this report from Institute of Transport Economics, the target...

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