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Originally Posted by Swift
This hasn't been mentioned in this thread (unless there's another EV thread?) but a 5 minute charge battery has been developed - https://www.theguardian.com/environm...charging-times
Additionally electric cars are now past the tipping point in Norway and are expected to pass that point globally in the next 2-4 years - https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-mass-adoption
I'm no expert on any of this, but I enjoy the discussion on it. I was in Oslo in 2019 and it was astounding to see so many EV cars on the road (their licence plates show as EV-XXXXXX) We played a little game to see how many we could spot on the busy road out of the city centre and counted about 30-45 in 2 mins. |
The thing with Norway is they have massive incentives, and dis-incentives for ICE. The government is basically highly subsidizing them, so you aren't going to replicate that cheaply elsewhere.
2023 sounds pretty optimistic for cost parity as well. I'd guess it's in the 2025-2030 range. Though it feels like cars are just getting more and more expensive, so perhaps they'll meet in the middle. I don't really expect a ~25k CAD EV with decent range any time soon. Tesla has been struggling for years now to get to 35k US.