Norway’s seven lessons for a successful EV transition

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Hello and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a weekly British EV newsletter.

I’m writing this having just arrived home from visiting EVS35 in Oslo. The enormous electric vehicle event brought together ministers, business leaders and policymakers at a critical point in the global EV transition.

My purpose for attending the show was to try and gather some insights about what we in the UK can learn from Norway, the global capital of EVs. To help me, I spoke with the 115,000-member strong Norwegian EV Association who provided seven areas to learn from.

I’m rather short on time for much else this week but have highlighted a couple of wider stories of note. As ever, if you have any questions or comments, please do drop me a line (tomrileylondon@gmail.com) or simply reply to this email. Likewise, feel free to forward it or share!

Seven lessons from Norway’s EV transition

“If you can make it happen here, you can make it happen anywhere”, exclaimed Espen Barth Eide, Norway’s Minister of Climate and E…