Total Electric Car Insanity! Spotting EVs Everywhere On A Quick Drive In Oslo, Norway 

Snow tires are mandatory whenever the road conditions mandate them in Norway, so most people have 2 sets of wheels 🙂

3 or 4 of the Scania trucks on the right at Scania center (4:28 in the video) are battery electric heavy trucks. My workplace ASKO has 10 electric Scanias in Oslo with electric fridge/freezer units for delivery to grocery stores. The car 24:50 into the video I think it was a buddy. (Google buddy electric)

Welcome to Norway! For us Norwegians this is nothing special, EVs have been everywhere here for several years now. So it shows that this is possible, if your government is interested 👍

You stayed at Lilly country club, the only hotell in the village of Kløfta. 12 miniutes from the Airport. how ever if you at 6:25 had turned your head right you would have seen a farm 400m from the highway, where a man that emigrated to new mexico was born in 1870. His son, Conrad started a Hotell, then one more, then one more and so on. But no hotells in Norway. The name of the farm is Hilton

24:48 A rare sighting of a "Buddy", with a range of between 12 and 37 miles. 😱 "Range anxiety? Wussies!" 🤣😋😉 Also, belated Hippo Birdy!🥳

The most fascinating for me Norway is oil wealth and no matter this government made it super easy ev transition. When I travel with my van in Norway I always admire the progress of new companies, stations

That was truly insane - as the title says... SO many EVs , wow and of course the humor that both Kyle and Alyssa have... fun video. Also - Kyle's knowledge of the cars passing by and behind, just from headlights... Who else knows this much?

That is what happens when you remove the standard 25% VAT and the CO2/Weight/Power taxes (usually another 25-50% of the price) from EVs. In addition to giving access to taxi/bus-lanes, free parking, free toll. Gasoline/diesel is also heavily taxed. Thus an EV is cheaper to own in Norway than an equivalent ice car.

19:50 The red license plate means temporary sign, preferably a test drive😊

There's a lot of "talk" here in USA about how more and more EV's are going to overload "the grid" and people trying to raise a scare over EV cars. I'd like to hear how a city with such a large load of EV's like Oslo is doing with so many EV cars in that town? Rolling blackouts? Can't use you electricity at night to charge? Do they have a crisis happening there? Can you share some of that experience since they have more EV's on the road than most places please. Nice video, big thumbs up 👍👍👍

I do something like this around my neighborhood in New York. When I go driving, I play a game with myself. I use an app called "ThingCounter" on my phone (mounted directly to the left of my steering wheel, not distracting). On the app, I have all typical EVs on the market listed. When I see one, I increment the counter by one. At the end of the trip, I have a count of every EV I've seen on the road. to go REALLY insane with the nerdy details, I've been recording those numbers in a spreadsheet, along with the miles driven for that day. That allows me to calculate the ratio of total EVs/Miles driven, as a way of scaling the frequency of EVs on the road. I'm also able to build trends that should if the amount of EVs I'm seeing is increasing over the weeks/months.

@ 15:30 you see a white large building on the left. That is actually an all-year indoor ski slope (snø, Lørenskog). Pretty cool structure if you look it up.

Wow the driving behavior was just so calm and why does the US have the worst highways 😂

Did you really say an EQC is cramped? How much space do Americans want/need haha

Haha! This is how it will look everywhere eventually, they are just a little ahead of everyone else.

I wonder when we'll get the first video from somebody driving around counting fossil cars!

Winter tyres are not optional. Unless you want a fine

Happy b-day Kyle! Really enjoying your daily videos from Norway :) - I hope you guys can do something about the audio of the videos. A simple setup with a camera and a mic mounted on it, or if you could use those wireless mics Bjørn uses, would make your videos even better. Keep it up!

NEEERRRRRRD, the irony is that being a nerd is fun and shows someone has passion.

Another ting to be aware of is that electric cars here in Norway doesn't have to be on an E-plate

Way to go Norway. Very impressive to see how fast EV adoption is going there. Now if only the U.S. adoption would speed up similarly.

Happy belated birthday Kyle.

You have just seen WAY more Mach Es than I’ve seen in the states in the last 18 months total. Wow. We’ve seen exactly 4 since we got ours.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for all the great content!

Glad you are having so much fun. Hope you can review th up coming Q8 etron and of course the SQ8 etron as well.

@20.00 That weird lisence plate is a dealers temporary plate. Dealerships buy these, and can use to shuttle cars, demo, etc for unregisterd cars.

orange one is called buddy, norwegian produced EV :) an the red licence plate you saw is a temporary plate, for test drive ore moving the car from one place to another :)

It might have been easier to just count the ICE cars!

They've got a lot of E-Trons, which recently became the best selling EV in Norway after Tesla. We also need some of these vebicles in the US market.

Norway actually rewards Ev owners with incentives and other encouraging things, unlike america... go Norway!!

Lily Contry club. The Golf-Resort just outside the small town of Kløfta, where I live 🙂 And I'm driving an EV, of course. A blue MG ZS EV It's funny seeing you guys drive the same route I drive several times a week :-)

Audi e-tron was the most sold car in Norway in 2020. As known this was one of the first real family electric car from Audi and one of a few besides Tesla. Some people bought e-tron which was an expensive car after some so called experts was a bit too eager to tell about all the benefits with ev's and told that evs had much less loss of value than other cars, but had forgotten the long wayting lists for new electric cars which for one or two years gave higher demand for used evs. And at the same time the market for new models with cheaper electric family cars with longer range nearly exploded. The used e-trons got strong competitions from new more efficient and cheaper electric family cars. Altough the e-trons is really good evs from a well known brand, a lot more new e-trons sold in 2020 than the used demand. And the used ev's have fallen more in price than most people thought when they were bought, and the e-tron 50 has been really difficult to sell because even though it's probebly more importent for much people with a comfortable, secure and reliable car it's all about range these days. After evs got relatively big pricedrops in 2023 and much people was careful in buying new cars, this gave even bigger price reduction on new cars where Tesla model Y was starting with a crazy price drop on new cars here in Norway. It's still hard competition and my wife ordered a new ev this spring because of prices for new ev's in stock that we couldn't dream of one year ago. The annonced new weight tax and VAT for new evs with prices over 50.000 USD from January 2023 made people veryy afraid of paying that extra tax and VAT that they bought a new ev years before they had thought. And although this near complete stop in the sale of new cars both because of this and the situation all over the world, the importers had to take their ordered cars and have them in stock. And on these cars people have got better deals than they who bought before the new taxes. This has been completely crazy difficult times in the car industry, not only in Norway.

I started high school in Trondheim, Norway in 2011 and had a pretty long bus ride. I was counting Teslas back then, but in the span of a few months I went from counting cars to counting days I didn't see one.

The small orange car is a Buddy Electric. I guess kind of a spiritual succesor to the THINK ev that excisted maaany years ago :)

Vacationing in Guadalajara, Mexico and I haven't seen a single EV. A few Prius's but those are hybrids and not true BEV. Don't know about the rest of Mexico but as the second largest city in Mexico that was very surprising and unexpected. Europe on the other hand and China are moving rapidly toward EVs along with other countries.

@19:45 Those are temporary plates. Dealers have them, and you can get one temporarily at the NPRA if you're just moving a vehicle one day or so and don't need to get it fully registered.

I noticed that on Google Street View, even when its a few years behind, or in other parts of the country.

Where i live, you would spot Subaru Outbacks, Foresters, Crosstreks. Toyota 4 Runners, RAV 4's, Tacomas, Tundras. Jeep Wranglers, Grand Cherokees. 4x4 pickups (Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota, RAM).

Hope your Burpy was Happy among the Vikings! They are so much more civilized and progressive than on this side of the pond: I calculated that just last month in Norway EVs constituted 77.5% of all cars sold. That white LEAF you passed was identical to the one I used to have. I'd love to relinquish my Model 3 for the Ioniq 5 you passed, but… they are so scarce here. You're sure going to have very short days and extremely long nights on your trip north! Also… gotta say: Alyssa has an amazingly steady hand with the camera!

"But EVs don't work in the cold!"

Red background and white text is car dealer temporary plates.

The population of Norway is smaller than most of big cities in America, only 5 mln. 90% of electricity come from hydro power stations. Norwegians are ones of the richest in the world.

Very cool video. Thanks for making the video and taking your viewers for a little drive in Norway. Btw the audio sounded good in the beginning, but as soon as you’re in the driver’s seat the audio was very quiet and hard to hear.

There are a lot of EV commercials now in the US.

Interesting how different countries differentiate EV cars from non-EV by number plates. We have special designation license plates that are black lettering on a light blue background, instead of black on white. That means that even if you get a customized license plate it will still show that it is EV and you will be able to use municipal benefits, like free parking.

I m coming for a short road trip I Norway in may It'd be cool if I see you or Bjorn on the road. It'll be my 1st Ev and 1st time in Norway. I hope I can pay recharge using credit card. Have a nice trip

4:15 You almost said «interesting» in Norwegian

Happy belated birthday Kyle 🎉❤

What great video. Have you met Bjorn Nyland at norway? I‘d would have been a great RU-vid Crossover of „my“ two favorite RU-vidr. 😀

Happy Birthday, Kyle!!! Fun video, so many EV

Happy belated birthday Kyle... i wonder if EV cars might getting less popular in Norway since Dec2022. As I read (somewhere..😄) that some benefits for the use EV has been reduced and price for charging has gone up by 3 folds... Correct me if i am wrong.

And they seem to charge them all without crashing the grid too! I. Am. Shocked. (Well, not really.)

Some cars can be too early for even getting EL plates, 90s electric Peugeot Partners or 106 will have normal regional plates, same with the Norwegian Buddy ones, and the Th!nk. Basically as if in the US someone who had a Dodge Caravan EPIC would have been pre special EV license plates in Norway, as I first saw them when Teslas started getting really popular around 2012-2013. I worked in a shop for US cars here in Norway, but also a battery dealership, so we had a couple of the Norwegian made Buddy in the shop, one early 2000s, and one I think was an '89, and they were old enough to basically be registered as motorcycles, and the batteries were terrible, your seat was basically atop like 6 serial connected car batteries :P The oldest one was silver and looked old with square headlamps and such, the newer one was bright orange, like the one you spotted, so I think that was a factory color, and the headlamps are two small round ones that look like they're covered in melted cheese.

There are right now 1 Mercedes EQV police car testing in norway. The police use electric cars as "administrations" vehicles. But the police have a 5 year deal with Volvo xc90 police car and with Mercedes with the Vito/V-class.

Cool, i was at the hotel this weekend. With my Electric Hyundai Kona😀

Happy birthday Kyle, I hope you got to try out some Norwegian cake! 🍰

Happy belated birthday!

The oranges strange car you see is EV called Buddy (time 24:47). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_(electric_car)

Happy Late Birthday! 🎂 🎉

Note to you! Electric cars do not have to go with reg.number starting with E. I have a Porsche Taycan with SX xxxxx on the plate.

Ironic that it is the exporting of oil that made the expansion of electric cars possible in Norway. The oil money pays for the subsidies.

Happy b' day my friend, thanks a lot for the video.

No wonder when regular vehicles have been and still are taxed 125% on purchase price here

Happy Belated Birthday Kyle! When were you in SF? I want to see that video. Next time you're in the Bay Area, try driving on El Camino Real between San Carlos and Palo Alto. You should reach a decent count there.

I’d imagine air quality is off the charts good in Norway! I know you guys are higher up in elevation in States, noticed any difference in air quality? Btw, one cannot beat getting a world tour sitting in the living room. Having said that. Any plans on traveling to Japan, or Singapore in distant future? There has to be some EVs there, yeah?! Cheers!

Average yearly kms do Norway driver's drive per year?

Happy birthday Kyle.

Happy Birthday, man.

Happy belated birthday Kyle! I also hope to travel to the EU countries someday too. Safe travels! ❤😊😉

I wonder what the proportion of commercial vehicles is electric in Norway

At 4:05 I believe you passed the TeslaBjorn last chance charger!

Come to Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. It is a rich area with almost only EVs.

Happy belated Birthday, mate! 🍻

the e-niro would of been great for me but I had a phev. I want an ev6 though looks great I don't like the new body look on the 2023 e-niro also happy belated birthday

Happy birthday, Kyle! Say, why do you think there are so many BEVs in Norway?

You sound like you have a cold. A gift from Norway.

Its amazing how very few personal pickup trucks are driven in Norway. I wonder the few that were passed by were work pickups as supposed to the US where its more varied.

EQE is going to fill Norwegian taxi fleet replacing the E class

happy birthday 🎂 kyle

Love the content Kyle. Keep it up!

Happy birthday that day 🇺🇸

This would have been SO good with some graphics to help us keep track of the count.

Biggest surprise? Ford Raptor, in Norway

GO NIO !

Count PHEVs too! Especially those with big batteries. Industrial trucks too.

I second the vote for Enyaq in USA!

Cheese box is Buddy electric 2 to 3 seater

The orange tiny e car, I pretty sure it was a Think ;-) Yes, we do have a lot of electric cars here in Norway.

That was a "buddy" EV I think at the end, the extremely small one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_%28electric_car%29

Over 75K Leafs in Norway, and hundreds more every month.. still

Kyle you are hugging the middle lane! That is a horrible way to drive! Please drive like a German in Europe. Stay as right as possible in all situations except when lanes are diverging soon.

Happy Late Birthday!!!

i ll see u on the roads of norway 😁 when u come to US pls review the chevy s electric suv 😎👌

raptors are rare, its close to 200k usd

Happy belated birthday🎉

what’s the status of petro stations in Norway? how has fewer ICE vehicles effecting their business?

Love to see all the EVs

Do you guys have a Patreon membership available?

I thought there would be mostly Tesla. But seems only 10% of EVs spotted was Tesla. How do Norwegians afford these EVs?

You need to upgrade your audio system