In #Norway, the #ElectricVehicle Future Has Already Arrived

About 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway are battery-powered. As a result, the air is cleaner, the streets are quieter and the grid hasn’t collapsed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-vehicles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived

About 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway are battery-powered. As a result, the air is cleaner, the streets are quieter and the grid hasn’t collapsed. But problems with unreliable chargers persist.

The New York Times
@GottaLaff I feel like there is a lot of cart before the horse here. Electric vehicles would be great for the environment, but in the USA the entire electrical grid would need to be overhauled first. According to the EIA over 60% of the power generated in the USA comes from fossil fuels. Even if you replaced a quarter of the cars in America with electric ones the strain on the grid would cause more fossil fuels to be burned to supply that power and put more emmisions out than what would have been prevented by the electric vehicles in the first place. In Norway only 1.2% of its power is generated by fossil fuels. Norway's population is also just over 5 million, the USA has a population of over 330 million. What works for Norway won't necessarily translate to working for car centric America.
@backofbeyond Then we need to adapt. Now.