Heidi Myrene parks her 2015 Tesla Model S in the last available slot in a Tesla Supercharger station in Lier, 23 miles south-west of Oslo. She's off to the family lakeside cabin, where the charging is slower than in their main home.
It's a hassle stopping to charge, and she rarely needs to, but this ensures the battery will be full enough for the return journey. It's all so normal that she seems surprised to be asked questions about her EV life. Her biggest grumble? Norwegian road grime. "It's a terrible place to have a nice car."
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As all the other posts give good valid points, in this Country adopting Norways Car pricing just wouldn't work, there are more People struggling at the moment to run a Car and pay there other month to month bills, madly rushing out to buy into EV ownership bec there's a no-brainer incentive to in a year or two said incentive is withdrawn could leave People without an EV , Norway population wise is small, imagine what it would have to be in the UK.
So Norway has used its massive social fund, generated from its oil and gas reserves, to encourage EV takeup rather than lining the pockets of rich supporters of its government. Also it made EVs the same price after taxes as ICE vehicles. Maybe if the UK started taxing luxury ICE cars at the same rate as Norway then maybe they could further subsidise the take up of EVs. Seems easy to skew the tax benefits for the rich maybe they need adjusting in the other direction.
Certain irony there, Norway has subsidised this massive take up of EV through a sovereign fund generated by fossil fuel.
Nearly 80% electric in a big cold country, goverment happy, owners happy, nearly 100% green fuel yet still luddites and nay sayers exist.