Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "DW REV - Cars & Mobility" channel.

@romanpolanski4928 Actually, if you design it to do so you can tow things just fine in a EV. And people are handling long distance driving in cold weather just fine in Norway, you just plan a few more pit stops, charge for 15-20 min in each place and have a meal, toilet break etc, perhaps get some fresh air, strech those legs...
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@MaticTheProto Yes and no. Their technology is a luxury privilege, their quality control... Not so much... But they broke through at a time where decent electric cars where a luxury. And paved the road for others to follow.
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@Andersljungberg Regarding air quality, come to Norway and try it out yourself. The air quality has improved noticably due to the switch to EVs. Yes, EVs also contributes to the air quality problems. In Scandinavia there's climate conditions where studded tires might be needed at times, mechanical breaks regardless of car type also contribute, and tires get down down, so does roads... But electric cars does less harm then gasoline cars do...
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 @plymouth491 That comment is a few decades out of touch...
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@orionbetelgeuse1937 Yes, we frequently bike in -20°C, it's good for you. My mum has arthritis, we managed just fine using the electric only busses in the city when we went to the mainland for a doctors appointment the last three days. The electric busses run so frequently that you just wait 10-15 minutes on each bus line, less if you're flexible with the lines and can take a bus going in a direction instead of a specific line. Switching busses was fairly pain free, they're designed to be easy to enter when disabled, and mum commented how different it was from her days. They're quiet, accelerate far faster then diesel busses in crosses etc, and I don't get nearly as travel sick in these modern electric busses as the old ICE ones. The network was designed with multiple public transportation hubs where you can often easily switch busses without walking to another bus stop to get where you want to go. It's the old ICE busses still used on long distance routes that she genuinely needs my help with...
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@Dungshoveleux The OP of this thread also has a bias, and is intentionally using dated numbers in his arguments. If you include plug in hybrids you can charge about a third of all cars on Norwegian roads now. If you stick to just pure electric cars, and just personal cars (no company cars, no vans etc) then the newest numbers are 24%, or about 1/4th of all cars of that category... He's right that most car sold here are used, but the share of the total car park that's electric increases with about 5% every year. So relying on the numbers of someone making a living of selling ICE cars might not be the best of ideas... The numbers weren't wrong, but they where intentionally misleading and dated.
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@LoremIpsum1970 Energy reliability, be it electricity or gasoline has always been somewhat spotty in some parts of Africa, and solar does work when it's overcast, the amount of power just might not be the same. But honestly, the reliability might be higher with solar.
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@FredrikSandbergNilsen-ez9qr That's just patently wrong. 28% of all Norwegian cars are petrol cars, 39% are diesel cars, 12% are hybrids the rest are capable of running on power from the wall or on hydrogen... The 80% number you used is dated. Yes, it's true that it takes time for the almost exclusively electric new cars to trickle down to replace all of our old ICE cars... 1/4th of all personal cars are electric now, as well as a significant number of company cars etc. If you mix in plug in hybrids about a third of the cars on the road can be charged. It's common for people to have a old ICE car and a new electric one in some areas while in others both cars are electric or one is a hybrid of some kind. Your numbers hasn't been accurate since 2022, about 5% of the car park is electrified each year.
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 @romanpolanski4928 In what country? I very much doubt that it's Norway...
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@DWREV The OPs numbers are somewhat misleading, not wrong, but dated, and they give the wrong impression. About a third of all cars on the Norwegian roads can be charged in some way, be they plug in hybrids or electric. And the electric share of the total market increases with about 5% each year, so, yeah...
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@nicolagianaroli2024 You're mistaken. Our population is fairly spread out, and northern Norway is relatively well represented in our parliament, more so then our population there might suggest. EVs are selling just fine in northern Norway and are being used just fine there, and the charging network is decent. Indeed I suspect that its in the south, not north where you'll find them the most lacking. Remember that the country is long and thin, and the chargers are fairly frequent along the main roads running the length of the country. And if you go to northern parts of the Nordic countries you're not going to some third world country all of a sudden, you'll find plenty of infrastructure, far more then in northern Russia or northern Canada.
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@nicolagianaroli2024 That's backwards... Honestly EVs are better for rural communities then ICE cars are. It's cheaper to transport in electricity to a scarcely populated area, and you're going to have a electric grid anyway, you can produce your own electricity locally if needed, and electric cars break down less often, so you don't need to transport in parts as often either... And 90% of charging is fine at home not in fast chargers anyway... It charges while you sleep, and while you work, so you usually don't even need to visit a place to charge.
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 @jantjarks7946 Exactly. Of course there's pros and cons like with everything, but I do think that EVs are a good fit for Africa.
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 @nicolagianaroli2024 I sent you a link to a map of all our chargers. Let me know if you got it.
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@nicolagianaroli2024 The whole bit about most areas having a low population is kind of wrong. Norway has intentionally had many policies aimed at combatting urbanization. And we even managed to reverse it for a few years once.
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