this is the world's first country to have more EVS than gasoline and petrol powered cars what are the numbers and how long does this normally take I think that's what a lot of people wonder they're saying you know what there's so many internal combustion engine cars on the road it's going to take many decades before we can get rid of them and replace them with EVS actually happens a fair bit faster than you would think hello my friends welcome to the channel I'm Sam Evans you're watching the electric Viking great to have you speaking of
EVS that you can buy in Norway now Norway is ACR this country where EVS have now overtaken gas powered cars in terms of vehicles actually on the roads now of course this doesn't include diesel powered cars I should mention in Norway you can buy the car that I'm about to pick up tomorrow guys so I'm pretty excited the new xong G6 is actually it's being delivered here tomorrow and we're going to do a big road trip I'll be filming filming some of those videos live on the channel guys of us um my boys and I
we're driving from here to Melbourne um Shanny can't come unfortunately she's um just recovering from radiation so she's done radiation uh treatment and hopefully I won't get into too many details I don't think she wants me to talk about the details hopefully we be surgery in a couple of months but we we don't know for sure yet what's going to be happening but yeah she can't sit down in a car for that long in fact can't sit down the car for more than you know half an hour so she can't come unfortunately but anyhow now
xbang G6 if you're in Australia uh you can put in a pre-order a deposit and if you want to get one there I think the best value vehicle you can get for a family and you can use my link and if you use my link you will get a free charger and installation I should point out I don't make any money from that and that's very very much always going to be the case I don't plan on selling cars anyhow the world leader in EV adoption Norway said that of the 2.8 million Passenger cars registered
in the country around 26.3% are fully electric that's more than the number of gas vehicles on the road diesel is the most common vehicle type making up about 35% of the vehicles on Norwegian roads right now but it won't be very long before EVS take over diesel as well because if you look at the sales right now Norway is up to about 94% diesel cars are pretty much Dead new diesel cars in Europe have collapsed new diesel sales for diesel vehicles after the dieselgate Scandal and after people started to realize just how incredibly bad for
you diesel cars are the emissions are causing cancer of course um diesel Car Sales collapsed so I reckon give it about 12 months and the EV Fleet will have surpassed diesel in Norway as well maybe in a couple of years we'll will hit 50% for Ev registrations as a total number of cars on the road to Norway and then I'd say by about 2030 it'll get to that point point of maybe 60 70% Norway remember is a pretty Advanced country so they do replace their cars relatively quickly the electrification of the passenger car Fleet is
keeping a high Pace said Norway and Norway is moving rapidly towards becoming the first country in the world with a passenger car Fleet dominated by electric cars said the director of o FV he predicted EVS will outnumber diesel cars by 2026 I think it's probably very liky that even happen next year Norway leads the world in EV adoption thanks to government incentives that include exempting electric cars and trucks from sales and Emissions taxes it's not really that big of an incentive to be honest there's bigger incentives in America lowering tolls and parking fees for these
vehicles and allowing EV drivers to use bus lanes now allowing drivers to use bus lanes is completely irrelevant because now that what 25% of all cars in Norway are are EVS it's not an advantage anymore so that's not really relevant to people buying an EV today in fact it makes no difference at all now of course lowering uh exempting EVS from sales and Emissions taxes that's that's a definite positive that's not the key driver though at this point in time keep in mind that at this point in time 94% of all sales in Norway or
electric and if that was the key driver then the same would be the case in America and other places where they offered big big subsidies uh you'd find that EVS would be 94% or at least over 50% they're nowhere near that right another big I think a bigger reason for that is people in Norway are clearly willing to change to something new so it's this kind of um understanding of technology and not being afraid of technology and having this willingness to change and I think um along with you know being a really wealthy country has
led to this this very fast adoption the Norwegian government has said that it hopes its tax incentives which are funded partly by the money it makes selling oil and gas to other countries will allow Norway to end all new gas and diesel vehicle sales in 2025 next year so I don't think Norway is not saying they're going to ban them it's saying that the market will just choose not to buy them anymore and it makes sense right right imagine if you were one of the 6% of people who didn't buy an EV last month in
Norway you'd have to be thinking to yourself what's going to happen to my wholesale what's going to happen to my the value of my car my internal combustion car in a few years because the the resale value of internal combustion cars in Norway has collapsed it's strange that the global media are not mentioning this not pointing this out it's a big risk for you right if you go and buy a plug-in hybrid a hybrid or internal combustion car today you are making a pretty it is a really risky decision if this car has got a
high value if it's if it's going to cost you more than $50,000 you could lose a huge amount of money on resale a massive amount it's kind of like that situation right where people were buying they buying those old blackberries and Nokia 3310 and all those old Ericson phones and all of a sudden the smartphone came out what do you think all those old phones were worth right nothing Norway's tax incentive for low emissions Vehicles introduced in 2007 spurred a decade long spike in sales for diesel vehicles which were calculated to have lowerer carbon dioxide
emissions than gas powerered cars now of course we now know that was a lie diesel sales picked in 2017 then sharply fell in favor of the growing EV market and you can actually buy a lot of different electric car models in in Norway many of which you probably never heard of unless you watch all of my videos I've covered most of them but there are a few I haven't actually even spoken about on this channel there are still almost 1 million diesel cars on the road according to ofv many of these will be rolling on
Norwegian roads for years to come globally about 18% of all new cars sold last year were EVS this year that number is higher it's just over 20% 60% of new vehicle sales in China are plug-in hybrids or EVS about a quarter of vehicle sales in Europe are electric and just under 10% of sales in the US it's actually about 85% based on July now obviously EB sales worldwide are growing quickly but they're not Rising as fast in the US as some car makers expected that could be partly because those vehicles are not as good as
they should be I mean for example the Cyber Tru is easily out outselling the Ford F150 in fact it's more than doubling sales of the Ford F150 Lightning could be partly because the the Ford F150 Lightning has very very slow charging I this is very important I think to truck owners who probably want to drive longer distance than the average car owner charging speeds 150 KW where is charging cyber truck is potentially 400 and it can charge at 400 Kow speeds in Europe it's been proven so one of the reasons why I think EV sales
have lagged in adoption in the US is well they've been targeted by the media with these fear campaigns and just brainwashed people in America into believing art nonsense which it seems easy to do for some reason uh for some reason the media just can brainwash um the public very very easily in places like Australia and the United States and that's probably harmed adoption but is also the technology the technology in China for their EVS is significantly more advanced than the majority of EV manufacturers in America and that would be holding things back I mean if
you want to buy a family van in the in China you can buy one on part pretty much on par with a cost for an internal combustion van and not to mention you can buy these new family vans that have you know 800 km of range right that that applies to many different sectors of the automotive industry so these Chinese manufacturers are covering off all these different sectors they have electric Utes that are relatively affordable they have all these you know $5,000 EVs and then very very luxurious EVS every Market sector there's an EV you
can't say that about the American car market and that's one of the reasons I think adoption there has been slow but hopefully that will change drastically over the next few years now of course protectionism in the United States is going to slow down EV adoption it doesn't allow for competition doesn't allow for better product to come into the market and unfortunately that's one of the differences between the US and Norway Norway doesn't have an automotive industry to protect so it will take whatever cars people want to send there and it seems to me that that
is also one of the reasons why EV sales have grown so quickly it's also one of the reasons why I think EV sales will grow very very fast in Australia a lot of Australians are anti EV however once you start to see how good they are once you start to see how how good some of these EVS that are coming from China are you might change your mind pretty quickly thanks for watching
