Tesla Model #1 selling car in Norway

[PorscheA]

Tesla's Model S overtakes VW Golf as Norway's best-selling car | Reuters

Musk is a genius. Norway recognize!!

[GH85Carrera]

It will be interesting to see how the Model S handles a bad winter storm. How long can the heater run when creeping along through a snow or ice storm.

I guess most folks get out the gas powered winter beater for that.

[speeder]

Any way you slice it, that is really impressive for an American start-up car company that did not exist a few short years ago.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Largely due to government incentives, as well as taxing the purchase of competing gasoline powered cars. Not exactly the free market at work. I'd be curious how they perform in the winter, batteries and cold don't mix well.


"Electric cars have been especially popular in Norway because of generous subsidies, free parking, government-provided re-charging stations, the right to use express lanes on highways and exemptions from tolls."

"One of those secondhand buyers, 27-years-old financial consultant Anders Langset, said a regular car with similar performance and engine size could have cost him up to 2 million crowns ($330,000) because of the punitive taxes Norway's government levies on cars with big, gas-guzzling engines."

[hardflex]

Seems like a perfect fit for the Tesla. 96% Renewable energy and excess capacity too.

Norway's Electrical Production

Of the total production in 2011 of 128 TWh, 122 TWh was from hydroelectric plants, 4 795 GWh was from thermal power, and 1 283 GWh was wind generated.[1] In same year, the total consumption was 114 TWh.[2]

[Christien]

Originally Posted by speeder

any way you slice it, that is really impressive for an american start-up car company that did not exist a few short years ago.

+1

[jyl]

Very impressive. Hats off to the Tesla folks. I will never own one, just too expensive, but I am glad the people who do want that kind of car are buying a car engineered and built in the USA.

[PorscheA]

I'm an admitted Musk Fanboi, but the Tesla S sounds like a fun autocross vehicle.

Insane center of gravity. Instant acceleration at the wheels.