Ever since getting an EV, I’ve noticed drivers to be a-holes! This guy in a huge truck spit in my direction for no reason!
All over social media people will key teslas, and talk crap. Has anyone else had weird experiences?
Ever since getting an EV, I’ve noticed drivers to be a-holes! This guy in a huge truck spit in my direction for no reason!
All over social media people will key teslas, and talk crap. Has anyone else had weird experiences?
Depends how you define “vast majority”. Electric cars are getting close to 25% of cars on Norwegian roads now.
It was 20% in March this year. Not sure when the “study” was undertaken, but I’d say 80% is the vast majority compared to the 20% alternative, and so it’s not a surprise that the 80% contains more opinions (of all types, not just concern about range) than the 20%. With that difference in size, you can make a “study” say whatever you want as long as you selectively report that “people who don’t have an EV say X” without providing that context.
There’s probably more people having sex every day amongst people who have never owned an EV, too. More people with an IQ over 180 as well. All meaningless, but hey it’s a study and that’s what it says.
Once you factor in that someone for whom range is an issue is unlikely to buy an EV, it seems like a no-brainer that the 4x larger cohort would have more concerns about range.
Your own link says that 83% of new cars in Norway are BEV, the 20% is total cars on the road, including used. The nearly 5x cohort of new car buyers have no problem with range.
By the way, I followed your link, as 20% sounded low to me. The pie chart on the source says 23,6% of all cars in Norway is electric.
Which is more in line with what the State Road Authority said in July this year: We are approaching 24% electric car ownership.
https://www.vegvesen.no/om-oss/presse/aktuelt/2023/07/nar-24-prosent-elbilandel/
Considering over 80% of new cars sold are electric now, my guess of 25% now is probably accurate. We will see when new numbers come out next year.