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Old 05-08-2017, 10:13 AM   #178
accord1999
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Originally Posted by Oil Stain View Post
The Scandanavian countries are early adopters of a lot of technology. Norway is over 20% market share of electric vehicles already. It's a similar spike to the cell phone market.
And that's only possible because EVs avoid the 100+% taxes and registration costs on regular vehicles, get free parking in city streets, free toll roads and HOV lanes. When Denmark began to tax EVs again, their sales collapsed:

http://insideevs.com/ev-sales-down-8...policy-change/

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I think many people in the developing world will skip right over internal combustion engines and go straight to electric.
They would need a modern electric grid to start from. The developing world are jumping into used vehicles from the first world or new cars built on out-dated or cheap platforms, not EVs that they have no place to charge.

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China already has the biggest market for electric cars. I suspect it will grow rapidly as people there are getting tired of living in a smog cloud.
China's also the biggest market for regular vehicles.

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