{"id":131288,"date":"2024-09-18T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131288"},"modified":"2024-09-18T17:27:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:27:21","slug":"washington-postnorway-is-now-the-worlds-first-to-have-more-evs-than-gas-powered-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131288","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Norway is now the world\u2019s first to have more EVs than gas-powered cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Norway is the first country in the world with more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/interactive\/2023\/electric-vehicles-compare-models-shopping-guide\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">electric vehicles<\/a>\u00a0than gas-powered cars on the road, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ofv.no\/aktuelt\/2024\/historisk-skifte-n%C3%A5-er-det-flere-elbiler-enn-bensinbiler-p%C3%A5-norske-veier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vehicle registration data<\/a>\u00a0the Norwegian road federation, known as OFV, released Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 2.8 million passenger cars registered in the country, 26.3 percent are fully electric, just edging out the share of gas vehicles. Diesel remains the most common vehicle type, making up more than a third of Norwegian vehicle registrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe electrification of the passenger car fleet is keeping a high pace, and Norway is moving rapidly towards becoming the first country in the world with a passenger car fleet dominated by electric cars,\u201d OFV Director Oyvind Solberg Thorsen saidin a statement. He predicted EVs will outnumber diesel cars by 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-solutions\/2024\/09\/17\/norway-electric-vehicles-exceed-gasoline\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Save you a click: Norway. <br>This country is now the world\u2019s first to have more EVs than gas-powered cars <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WkVNxqxAlv\">https:\/\/t.co\/WkVNxqxAlv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffjarvis\/status\/1836346322728710353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway is the first country in the world with more\u00a0electric vehicles\u00a0than gas-powered cars on the road, according to\u00a0vehicle registration data\u00a0the Norwegian road federation, known as OFV, released Tuesday. Of the 2.8 million passenger cars registered in the country, 26.3 percent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131288\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[683,456,95,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology","category-norway","category-science-technology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131292,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131288\/revisions\/131292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}