3 days ago
- Automotive
- Washington Post
Most new cars in Norway are EVs. How a freezing country beat range anxiety.
FINNMARK, Norway — Just a few years ago, almost no one drove electric vehicles up here. In this remote region north of the Arctic Circle — where reindeer outnumber people, avalanches can bury roads in winter and sunlight disappears for weeks — 'range anxiety' takes on a new meaning.
Today, however, nearly all new car sales in Norway are electric. That's true even in Finnmark, the northernmost region in Europe's northernmost country.
