The sales of Model Y have actually declined in Norway, though they’re still slightly up from the same month last year. The main reason is most likely that they launched a 2,99% interest sale and reintroduced free charging at Tesla stations. Good luck to the buyers with selling it in a couple years, though.
I can’t relate to anyone buying a Tessla in this time and age.
I certainly agree, people should be more conscious of where they allow their money to end up. I have a VW now, but would probably not have bought one in 1938.
*Tessler
Always a pleasure seeing that peoples’ moral compass can be spun 180° by a few hundred bucks saving on a car that costs 3 times its worth.
Well, moral compass will be weighed up against personal finance (actual income has declined drastically in Norway) and whether Elon is a US problem or a Norway problem. A lot of people might think that Elon is a stinking Nazi turd, but we can’t smell him on this side of the Atlantic. Not a good way of approaching the matter, mind you. We should keep in mind that throughout modern history, the US has had a habit of making their problems everyone else’s, like the problematic uncle at the family Christmas gathering.
That’s ironic considering Tesla sales plummeted in other places. Maybe they’re shamelessly buying up all the used ones people are selling out shame?Just a misleading claikbit headline. Tesla market share is still down (still leading tho, but not for long):
The battle for car buyers has not diminished with an increasing number of Chinese brands and models on the market around the world. In Norway, too, many people are choosing Chinese cars, which so far this year have a market share of around 12 per cent. A small increase, but relatively stable. On the other hand, Tesla, which has long dominated new car sales, is currently struggling in Norway. At the beginning of May, Tesla had a market share of 11 per cent, compared with 18 per cent at the same time last year.
Translated from Norwegian with DeepL.
Tesla sucks ass
I do have to credit Norway with the EVs: while Norway is relatively-well-to-do and can afford EVs more than many countries, it did so despite geography that was pretty unfavorable.
It’s a country that gets pretty cold (albeit not to the degree that many other places at similar northern latitudes are, due to their proximity to water). One of the challenges EVs have is cold weather reducing EV range, and that’s on top of not having a free source of waste heat to run the car heater from an ICE, so all the energy to run a heater has to also be pulled from the battery.
IIRC at least some of the Teslas have laminated glass on windows other than the windshield, which I mostly think of as being interesting in terms of sound insulation, but understand also does provide some thermal insulation. I don’t know if anyone makes an “Arctic package” for Tesla vehicles.
Here’s someone talking about charging issues at very low temperatures:
Charging: As I don’t drive that much, I am typically satisfied with Level 1 charging at home. I usually can charge 20% of my battery overnight. At -40c however, the car doesn’t charge at all when I get home. So I heat my garage a bit and get the temperature just a bit above freezing, and I wait 2 or 3 hours for the battery to warm a bit, and the battery starts charging at about -5 degrees at a rate of 1kW, or 6.7km/hr.
Nah, I think Norway is perfect country for EV adoption. Winters are not that cold - most of population lives on the coast. Mountain driving is much better in EV than in a fossil car - when you need to descent from a high altitude in petrol car you have to remember to keep high gear and not to burn breaks. In EV you just smile at the battery charge going up.
In Norway almost all driving is 70 - 90 km/h tops. You have quite high efficiency here, so a 400km rated EV will actually deliver that range on a road trip. It is like 5 hours of driving before you need to charge again. In central Europe in a similar car you jump on a motorway and at 140km/h you need to recharge after 2 hours or so, which is annoying.
when you need to descent from a high altitude in petrol car you have to remember to keep high gear and not to burn breaks
I thought you kept a lower gear to better control the speed. Have I been driving wrong all this time¿?
Your are absolutely right. I have misspoken (miswritten?).
