Norway’s Record EV Sales & Why PHEVs Aren’t the Future 

I just bought a 2nd hand BEV I3s after the lease ran out on my MG Phev. Sure the MG was a comfortable car to drive and all the tech that came with was great. However I would get so annoyed that it only did 52 km on electric and took hours to charge at home. Also, especially during in the winter it would just not run on electric, even when the engine was warm. The car just said no. So this put an additional cost of having to use petrol. It really was so irritating. I felt like a real sucker. It certainly took out much of the enjoyment of driving. Having now bought a BEV and the fun I am having with the I3. I would never even consider touching a PHEV again. Especially since here in Norway, the electric charging network is now pretty good. Mainly charging from home also makes it very cheap to run. Another argument that wins me over now is that many of the new BEVs now run 500-600 +km before they need a charge. Charging times are also increasing. I can also see distances improving drastically over the coming years. I am just afraid that the government, in order to make up for their lost tax revenue on petrol and diesel cars, will start to charge by the km.

Ironic when Norway's economy depends on Oil and gas.

The situation in The Netherlands is a bit different. The government ended the incentives too fast. Road tax starts for BEV starts in 2025. Company car tax will be (almost) comparable to PHEV and ICE in 2025. Registration tax (small, but will grow) for BEV in 2025. Because the registration tax for PHEV is only a bit more, a lot of new car sales are PHEV (again).

EV's as of right now are too expensive in sweden for broad adoption. We need a good few sub 350,000 sek options before it really gets competitive. Most people in that segment are not really range anxious, but rather winter anxious. Proper parking with battery heaters and chargers everywhere are a must aswell.

People don't realize in a hybrid the fuel will not last forever if not used. 3 to six months and it turns bad. Would cause injector problems and performance issues. Still range anxiety if you have to remember to use the fuel you did not want to use.

PHEV seems like more of a waste. You would still need to build both an engine/transmission plus all of the other parts that are needed for ICE AND a battery. Seems like a double waste and doesn't make sense to me.

Lets hope they keep the incentives in Norway. And for foreign countries, look what Norway did since 10~15 years ago in terms of incentives.

Today you can by some decent EVs in China at prices much lower than ICEVs and that is the reason EVs are taking over in China and EU, USA and Can are posing huge taxes on them. BYD Seagull (Peugeot e-208 comp) at $9.700 or XPeng Mona M03 (Tesla Y comp) at $16.800 are phenomenal cars for that price and it will come to us in several years. Most of EU, Japan and USA brands will not survive it.

Phev growth is crushing Bev growth globally for the time being. Will be interesting to see where it ends up. We don't all have the 3rd highest oil earnings per capital on the globe to support the ev transition as amazingly as Norway has done.....and it's " never Tesla" for me due to Elon's behavior so in the USA it's Tesla or nothing for the most part.

I want to go to Norway to see all the EV infrastructure.

I like EV's but they are outperformed by a Toyota Corolla from 1988 when you go further than the next town. It's sad that my $80k new EV is slower to travel with from nothern Sweden to southern Sweden than a old Corolla!

Norway is showing the way.

Good job Norway on narrowing your fuel options. Should be interesting when future electricity rates shoot up, a geopolitical situation limits electricity, or there's some emergency where you need to immediately fuel up and drive. Lemmings.

I prefer PHEV because it IS the future.