How Tesla Became The Most Popular Car Brand In Norway

It's so sad that in the English speaking countries there are news outlets that deliver pretty much the exact opposite of the truth all day long (especially about EVs), and these outlets get large, credulous audiences.

If all cars in Norway were electric, it would use 4- 5% of the electric production in Norway

It is even more mind boggling that they do that while they have no scruple to drag down the biggest innovator tesla, which is their very own, made in usa company.

"Its almost like the non-stop FUD we hear in North America is B.S." "Almost"? Don't tell me this is your first clue! CNBS is responsible for a lot of the misinformation we get about EVs and REs.

Yeah, this is sad

So much cheap power in Iceland you export it in the form of Aluminium and other high energy input materials.

Aluminium is so abundant that energy is the determining factor for its production, rather than the mines/deposits

Is a Tesla better than an ICE car during a volcanic eruption?

@@canadagooddunno. but in a nuclear attack, it sure isnt. ill be smoking a cigar in my 1974 cadillac deville and laughing at all the stranded techbros because of the EMP burst.

@@ct1762 EMP blasts are basically just fantasy for preppers.

Feels like the dude has an insane amount of chill energy

Pretty sure the standard of living in Scandinavia in general has something to do with it.

he looks normal wtf you depressed people smoking

I've seen him in with that footage in another Documentry.

@@vsznry yeah, it is a chill life when the US picks up the tab for 68% of all NATO expenditures while nations like Norway pitch in 1.74% of their GDP.

.. the story about Tesla might be ok, but what about the Norwegen story and how they financings the party …

Except the cnbc reporter never asked how do they recycle the EV’s , once they come end of life? 🤔. Especially the batteries, as they need to be carefully dismantled to be recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.

@@paulsz6194 .. one aspect of many, but recycle has little to do with the “popularity” i believe…

Forgot to mention the grid would collapse if all cars were electric. We have to import electricity produced by coal powered plants to sustain the grid. The cost of electricity has skyrocketed because of the switch to "renewables".

@@fred6907 silly. Did the grid collapse in any country where EVs are more than 50% of sales?

BYD has recently surpassed Tesla.

I've owned two Teslas. Model S was good. Model 3 was the worst quality cars I've ever had. Dumped it for Chevrolet bolt.

People like you only say praises to Tesla have never driven another EV other than Tesla. Try one with the actual Regen braking and physical controls.. Way better and safer than touch screen everything while seesawing on one pedal driving.

My same feeling when I got my MS. I regret sitting on the fence for over a decade being anti EV. I feel foolish, yet happy I tried for myself and was blown away

@@silveriver9 In EV fires. LMFAO SMH

💯! Same here

Have you ever heard of Vinfast

I agree. It's hard to go back to ICE vehicle after using EV.

@@gocnhinvutruavoid them they aren’t ready yet

haha. you have driven it ?@@benjaminfranklin4760

Think about that for a minute. Keep with an old,slowing dead end industry or invest in sustainable energy with almost endless upside. The age of energy abundance is starting to show don't you see?

that is smart investment

It is actually pretty funny. But jokes on us. They will have cleaner air while making money selling their dirty oil

@@williamkreth here in tunisia we don`t have much of fusil fule to export the only oil we make is EVOO but if our government is smart it tunisia can become large electrecty ( green energy ) to Europe ... we have sun so we can build large CSP plants in the south ... so it can sell it and improve infrastructure

A smart drug dealer doesn't consume their own drug.

How many models does Tesla have?

thats not true

Model S
Model 3
Model X
Model Y
Cybertruck
Semi Truck

“Safest country”
Hmm I wonder why

It's kind of easy to do when New York has an even bigger population than this tiny country.

and that is what attracted illegal muslims to enter norway.
Soo they will demand Sharia there..
ooh wait - It is already happening!

Japan is pretty good too. They're just less selfish than other countries. ​@@GoGoPooerRangers

​@@saxena3718What's an "illegal muslim"?

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In the winter Toronto does get much colder than Oslo Stockholm and even Reykjavik. EVs are incredibly common in Vancouver though

oslo is not that cold....

They work IN Oslo, Stockholm and Reykjavik. Try to drive 200 km out of these cities at - 20 degrees and you will need a huge battery which most people simply cannot afford.

It’s the charging network that those places do not have yet.

​@@ylpea5170Incorrect. You can drive anywhere in Norway with the vast majority of EVs.

It is an import tax.

And the reason they sell more everywhere else is because oil is subsidized... If you want to do math do it on both sides.

@@TalzBlazebut Norway is an oil producer. Most European countries heavily tax gasoline. Claiming its for the environment but its for income. Soon electrical tax will be 100%.

​@@johnfurr6060 Nothing wrong with what Norway is doing; I was not implying that. But if your choice is a basic Toyota for 50K or a Tesla for 40K, the choice is easy. But in the States one can purchase a 328i for 40K instead of a Tesla, so there's less compelling reasons to purchase a new Tesla other than for the electric drivetrain.

@@akorzan In USA, you can buy a Tesla for almost 30k factoring the EV rebate, so I still think it should be an easy choice.
Here is a text from the Tesla USA page: "Model Y Starting at $36,490 After Federal Tax Credit."
On top of the FTC, there are also State rebates. In Colorado for example you get an additional 5000, and there are also some other states offering rebates (don't know them all by heart).

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that's the same thing just with extra steps lol

Tesla is horrible quality

It's an american car company, of course it is bad quality. That didn't stop ford and chrysler manufacturing milions of their trash

@@slickrick876do you own one?

@@slickrick876tell that to the millions of people that love them and have no issues.

Still massively harmful for the fish but of course that is not talked about

Not every country has access to hydropower tho, so in those instances solar and wind power are still great options. Take the Netherlands for example, no hydropower there, but plenty of wind from the North sea and the highest density of solarpower in the European union

@paliewallie I would think that the potential for renewable electricity generation from the North Sea is more from the kinetic energy of the water than the wind. Offshore hydro, because the energy of moving water is far greater and more dependable than moving air.

@@dennisenright9347The problem is how difficult offshore is to deploy and maintain.

It’s a testament to what happens when you have small government with their priorities in order and little red tape.

I have a Model X, the old one and it's addictive. New is 100x better than that 😅

@@justinj.k.3597I prefer the S.

@@lancetruong4957 And that's why Tesla makes both 😀

this made me laugh lmao

Why is race always on you people's mindset??

Hahahhaa perfect!

@@15thelongway Because Leftist have made it a thing. We'd largely beat it in the USA and the evil Establishment made it a centerpiece of everything in recent yrs, we even have segregated dormitories at some colleges. It's insane.

@@15thelongwaybecause the media keep doing this to us. Go to Sweden. 50%. Some areas you won’t even find a swede.

You heard it here folks. Hydro electric power is only possible in Norway. Nowhere else.

All your FUD bullet points apply to US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, etc. Stop making excuses.

Norway is whealty .. and only 5 million people .. Forget it..

@@kebeleteeek4227 entirely possible in US.

@@aztronomy7457 lol. You think USA can source 95% of its electricity from extremely cheap, abundant hydroelectricity??? Lol
Thank you. I haven't had such a belly laugh since the last time I spoke to an EV cultist.

부정적인 댓글의 대부분이 테슬라를 견제해야 만 하는 사람들이 쓰는 것으로 보입니다. 새로운 것으로 바뀔때는 늘 기존의 것을 지키고 싶어하는 세력들이 반발하는 법이거든요. 새로운 것이 옳고 더 나은 것이라 하더라도 기존의 이익을 잃고 싶지 않은 사람들은 있지요 기존의 기업들 주식을 갖고 있는 사람들도 새로운 것을 싫어합니다

They are probably Americans. They hate Tesla lol.

Yes, even the Chinese acknowledge that it was Tesla that got their EV balls rolling.

Cleaner future using vehicles that are made from materials that are mined from the earth, yeah, "clean"

@@Thors.hammer69420So is literally everything you touch is used from materials that are mined from the earth, Greta.

Teslas are garbage. A lot of people are trading them in and going back to ICE

​​@@Thors.hammer69420Wait until you learn about oil, steel, aluminum and plastic

While mining oil🤣

​@kinghenry3693 well they are mining it from the ocean and not burning it in their cities with cars.
Also the video says they are planning ahead and don't want to be dependent on oil.

the Eurocentric myths 🤣🤣🤣

@@kinghenry3693stop lmao. Your trying too hard

Ocean oil drilling is even worse mate.

Those clowns export gas you know !?
A tiny nation can sustain..
Going green by exporting green house gases is a hypocrisy

You’re kidding me right? You know how much oil they export?

They are blessed with easy to obtain energy sources with a small high per capita population this isn't replicable in most places. They are basically Wakanda

​@@kevlee80rudalsexporting and using are two different things m8 they don't using oil to produce power so yes you can say Evs are using clean energy to charge 😂

Norway is to cut production of oil in the long run, but right now the whole European society would collapse. That is why they increased production after Putin started the war in Ukraine, and the threatened of cutting supply of oil and gas to Europe. So people could still be warm in winter and have gas in their cars. And if you do some research you would see that they also made extracting oil cleaner and safer. (In comparison of frakking as an extraction method)

Norway export most of the excess power to EU, making electricity insanely expensive...especially in winter. Robust my ass.

Yes because nobody believed EVs would work and Tesla would succeed at the time.

~90% of the time
But if you want to go anywhere else, you need fast chargers. Nobody would buy an EV if they couldn't drive where they want with it.

i mean mercedes is still the european king of comfortable driving & quality finish & quality service. and they make electrics now, too.

LOL ! I can use my company's EV around the city. If I hit the 800km trip I'm choosing my old E39 without ANY doubt.

내연차들 관련 사람들이 이 댓글을 싫어해서 반박하러 올 것입니다

Tesla quality does not convince me. Lots of small bug and brain farts in design which just goes so how new they are to making cars.

That was smooth

Shhh Ko-Duh

I means something like "It's a pity"

@@Czechbound Yeah that is super fascinating, I never quite understood why.

Perhaps not, but see the opportunities not the limitation. Clean Air and water, the fossette water is cleaner and healthier than the water from store bought water. Don't let big Oil tell you what the facts is, do some google search and then you wil see.

no problem at all USA spends hundreds of billions on endless wars and you are telling me that USA can´t achive this man give a brake

The US could easily spend that much, by two simple moves:
1) Fully fund the IRS so they can collect the back taxes owed by tax cheats among the wealthiest one percent.
2) Cut the Pentagon budget by about 25%.
The benefits just in healthcare spending alone would be huge.

The US government is the largest excess printer of money in the world although China is probably in the passing lane.

kekw " U.S. fossil fuel subsidies stretch across the U.S. tax code, which makes detailing their costs complex. The IMF estimates they stood at $760 billion in 2022, a figure topped only by China. " - 23.11.2023, reuters
so its already replicated....2x.... a year..to oil. in usa. " can’t be replicated "
and its about creating infrastructure first. with nuclear power, among others.

A tesla ad they didnt have to pay for

@@koraegi It's not about tesla, they just re-upload videos from 3 months ago like they do repeat telecast on TV . Many of these Legacy TV media groups are doing this.

@@rx58000Thanks for the info!

More Tesla propaganda being re -uploaded all the time.

@@richardwalsh1838 How much sense does that make when Tesla pays $0 for legacy media advertisement? 😅

Short Tesla. Buy BYD calls. Retire

Norway has also used a third of its proved crude reserves since 1998. That rate is mirrored globally by and large.

You seem to have missed the part where they said only 24% of Norway's GDP is from oil and gas. This means 76% of this funding comes from other sources.

It’s not Norway’s fault that the rest of their world loves buying their biggest product.

You're one of those who have eaten the FUD about EVs being more expensive than ICEs. That was true once, but not anymore. They reached parity (TCO) a couple of years ago. Now we are working on sticker prices, the indicator that most people need to make judgments because they don't know how to do simple math. The other tripping up point is comparing a $20k piece of crap econo car with a fully loaded, entry level Tesla. Of course econo is cheaper, but that Tesla has more to offer (safety, performance, fun versatility) than comparable ICE premium models by a mile while still maintaining a price edge.

​@@billjohnson9221still shitlas are garbage 😅

Norway is a very long country. EVs work fine for people who drive long distances, or live in apartments. You are right that they don't work that well for pulling trailers (yet)

To be fair, Norway is pretty frigid too. Winter temperatures in Oslo are similar to those in Helena, MT

@@vanyac6448 Oslo is the most southern and warmest part too. It's much colder up north.

EVs work fine for long distance driving, when the charging infrastructure is in place. The biggest limiting factor is the biological blob behind the wheel - I tend to need to stop to eat and use the restroom way before the car needs charging. And I live in an apartment, in a city that has plenty of cold winter weather, and I have home charging.
This entire "EVs don't work for long trips" thing is getting really boring to read time and again. It's nonsense.

@@logitech4873how many drive outside of their town?

Ya i said that too but its getting damn close 😂

EVs that offer battery swapping can swap at about the same speed as refueling. Tesla tried it for a while before backing down, but startups are trying it again.

@@B.D.F. how do you know if the battery your getting is good ?

@@mcsike7264 You don’t, they do it completely blindly with no oversight. /s
Testing. They test the batteries and ensure they have a minimum health before redistribution, usually along the lines of “minimum xxx km of range”.

@@B.D.F. what do I do when they run out of charged batteries and I don't have the range to go to another

He knows something

Many do, myself included. There are much better cars out there, electric or ICE.

​@@naderkavandithere is none if you want to buy a new car.
You would have to go much higher price to find something that could compete. Else you are trolling yourself with buying anything else and especially EVs

​@@ziggs123 LMAO EVs are overvalued, you can always find cheaper ICE. Tesla has the worst build quality 😂

@@neddiego2570even if you gave me an ICE car for free, no way in hell I’m going back to that from Tesla. It’s like going back to a rotary phone from an iPhone.

@@neddiego2570talking about teslas build quality in 2024 is hilarious. That was a model X/S quality issue in like 2018 & before. 2024 was the dead line of them having quality issues

Probably the 12V battery

12v batteries don't like low temps.

BYD has recently surpassed Tesla globally.

@@silveriver9sure. That brand does not exist in the nordic countries

@@leonelbustosb I heard they plan to launch there. BYD is already present and growing in other parts of Europe. The BYD Seal looks very nice.

@@silveriver995% of byd sales are from China and the ceo already admitted they are struggling outside China

@@eugenedelacruz6754 Tell me which car company that hasn't had ups and downs? BYD has barely penetrated the global market yet it is already the biggest EV brand. This shows tremendous potential. Tesla uses BYD batteries too. I see BYD more and more each day across Europe. Tesla is struggling in China, now that Chinese EVs are out of the starting blocks.

Tesla is always pushing the envelope and when you see what is coming with their Gen 3 vehicles you will be amazed if not shocked. No danger of them slowing down their innovations.

elon drives a pretty tight ship. demands a lot.

​@@Redmanticore Elon is just a little boy stuck in a grown man's body

The competition is largely an illusion as the other makers lose money on their production.

I'm curious, can you give examples?@@churblefurbles

I was curious, googled it and it seems it went bankrupt in 2011 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Global#:~:text=Think%20Global%20was%20a%20Norwegian,fourth%20time%20in%2020%20years.

Locally manufactured car brand. One of the first EV in Norway. Completely useless and looks like a drunk frog. Hence why they went bankrupt rather fast.

No. We already have massive tax breaks, including not paying road tax in many states. Electric grid is different in the US as well. The government has already forced taxpayers to pay for new cars for millions of people.

Yes billions more to your 30+ trillion dollar deficit...

@@martinfarrell5778when the debt bubble burst the United States should put a for sale sign up at the White House & congress 😂😂

I can tell you have never had a nice car before lol

@@BMWROYALi have have had the best sport cars of BMW and Mercedes. Now i got the Tesla S and its another level. Use my Mercedes for some weekends and then all other time i just go with my tesla s and its a trully great car

Two days ago I drove from Colorado to Minnesota, 903 miles, and 12 hours and 40 minutes. I saw two different guys sitting in Teslas trying to charge their vehicles. The families that I know who have a Tesla have it as their second or third vehicle. It’s their in town car. How many people can afford that?

@@DuffyGabi Here in Panama City Beach Fl I see the same teslas parked over night charging at the same gas station. How fun and convenient that must be to be picked up every night, leave your junk to charge and have to be dropped back off to every morning.

Yes you will 🤗

step 1: have a two trillion dollar fund.
step 2: not needed

Yes but give those 2 trillion to all the people and not a handful of billionaires.

There is nothing to learn from Norway we don't already know..

@@martinfarrell5778 A lot of vulgar people with old big gas engine pickup trucks for example!!! I am pretty sure that Americans know very little good things.

Atleast you copied our open borders, that seems to be going just fine /s

Hail mein Elon?

Not sure what the average is. My 2019 Tesla model 3 deprecated with about 50% in 5 years, which is right at the national average. So it seems they don't lose value that fast.

The insurance on my EV and petrol car is about the same. When I was looking to buy our first EV we considered buying a used one, but quickly found that there wasn't much to be saved on one-to-two year old cars, so decided on buying a new one, (this was in 2020, things may have changed).

Telsa better than BMW? In what world??? 😂

@@nlocnil3602 In the EV world, BMW is lost. All car parts that they perfected over decades simply don't go into EVs, there Tesla got a massive head start and it shows.

Yeah. I have a massive underground parking complex under my apartment, it doesn't smell like gasoline fumes like I remember enclosed parking garages used to do.

BYD has recently surpassed Tesla 👍🇨🇳🇸🇯

Norway is for Norwegians.

​@@silveriver9 Not in Norway. Get that human rights abuse flag away from the Nordic flag 🇸🇯

@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle As you gleefully type your comment on a China-made device 🤦‍♂️. And Norway happily accepts Chinese investments and tourist spending. 🤡
Also, "Moore" isn't even Norwegian 😂

I live in Lofoten. I own a Tesla, and there's many Teslas everywhere here. Svolvær and Reine has Tesla supercharger stations.

Trash

@@i6power30 Glad you're contributing so much logic & thinking.

How's the battery health for 5 years?

@@silentwatcher4853It surely isn't 100% any more, but any change that's there isn't enough to impact my use of the car. I just don't notice.

@@JT_771 Interesting. I still have doubts about whether batteries can be as reliable as ICE that have been proven to function for decades.

Would not work. Tesla would be half more expensive because of very high wages in Norway even comparing to Germany.

Small population and large shipping costs make Norway less than ideal to deliver cars throughout Europe.

Sure, lets just completely ignore the insane immigration (with rampant increase in crime) and other MINOR details. Here's a hint, NEVER trust CNBC...all they do is lie.

Same I am just going to buy a used one in about 5 years. I don't care if the battery is degraded a bit because I don't drive much anyways

Each of our family members drive electric; my wife’s Model S is 10 years old, my daughter’s smart electric drive is 9 years old, and my son’s smart electric drive cabrio is 12 years old. - all of these are still going strong 💪🏼⚡️

BYD has recently surpassed Tesla.

you are gonna love it man! Bought my wife a model 3 last year and just taded in my jeep for a model Y. Best cars I have every owned!

@@williamkreth you will care when it doesn’t move and a new battery is required. Hahah

Sheeeet

This is actually true. Insurance does cost more! Everything else is cheaper. Repair? insurance covers it, but charging is cheaper than gas and hardly any repairs. But yes insurance absolutely does cost more. that is a point I can't refute

Yeah unless you wanna go thru Tesla insurance. Pay 93$ for full coverage

The insurance is the main reason I'm not getting one. It's nearly 100/mo more than comparable ICE cars.

Not greedy and have lots of money to give subsidies

@SamanoSoleyn I rather prefer our government was greedy than incompetent and corrupt.

Because they are rich

As a Norwegian, you have ZERO clue about what you are talking about. They put that greed elsewhere, trust me.

@@fred6907 I said I RATHER PREFER our government was greedy than incompetent and corrupt. I didn´t say they weren't greedy.

You don't need a garage. You don't need a house. Norway has right to charge laws, so you can get a charger installed even in your apartment regardless of what the landlord says.

Not true. They have high taxes for gas cars and no tax for electric. Big problems with parking of gas cars etc..

LOL ! I found this comment quite sarcastic :))

Chicago event was all due to user error. You charge BEFORE parking in the freezing cold, otherwise charging won't start until the battery has reached a certain temperature above freezing. That's why the chargers "didn't work", cause every car had to spend 20-30 minutes heating the battery before taking a charge. Alternatively the drivers could've set their cars to pre-heat before leaving for the charger, and there wouldn't be an issue.
If charged before parking the car can be used normally right away and the battery will reach suffiecent temperature through use in time for charging.
It's all described in the manual too, so these suckers deserve a loud RTFM!

Don't know how cold it is where you are in the winter, but in the south it was dropping to -9.4 F several weeks. (And even colder up north) And Teslas worked great, but diesel vehicles had problems because of the AddBlu liquid.

This didn't happen in Norway. Norway has adequate charging infrastructure for their EVs.
And in Chicago it only happened in a small area, and only for two days, due to a power outage that also closed several gas stations. (The outage closed multiple data centers, cutting off the charger's communications)
Meanwhile, the cold weather made its way across the whole northern part of the US without affecting any other Tesla chargers.

That was one weekend and it was mostly driven by "black swan" events, a perfect storm if you will. 90%+ of all charging is done at home and wouldn't slow an EV down one iota, especially a Tesla.

you think you would not have heard already, if all tesla EV and chargers would have "froze" during winter in northern europe?

Think of it this way, Teslas have been on the market for over 10 years, and every year was fine, until this one secluded area in one specific part of the world, people had issues in the winter this past year. If it was an issue, youd see it more than just one time in chicago