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Originally Posted by Truenorth00

We don't live in the US. The state of electricity distribution infrastructure in California is about as relevant to me as the state of such in Zimbabwe.



Your assumption that they are solely motivated by politics is wrong. Take Ontario. Why would OPG and Hydro One team up to build a charging network in a province where the government has been pretty hostile to EV adoption and the penetration rate is abysmal? These are also exchange listed companies now, so far less subject to political pressure.

On the substance of the argument, it's great that we have places like Norway, with extremely high EV sales share that we can learn from. Something like 15% of the road fleet is electric there. Total plug in sales share is at ~90%. Battery electric sales share is at 70%. As per Macleans freelancer logic, their grid should be a smouldering pile already.

Um, yeah Norway. Where their EV subsidies were essentially funded by pushing oil sales from the North Sea.

Norway's electric car drive belies national reliance on fossil fuels
Two-thirds of sales at end of 2020 were battery electric vehicles despite dependence on oil and gas drilling

Norway has a range of incentives to buy electric cars and plans to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2025.
Elisabeth Ulven and Tone Sutterud
Sat 9 Jan 2021 08.00 GMT

Norway became the first country to sell more electric cars than petrol, hybrid and diesel engines put together last year, new data shows, with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounting for two-thirds of sales in the final months of 2020.

Norway has one of the world’s most ambitious green targets, planning to phase out sales of all new fossil-fuel vehicles by 2025, five years earlier than the UK.

It is quite a contradiction in a country that has become one of the richest in the world on the back of its oil and gas revenues, has made itself dependent on oil, and clings to further production even as the world increasingly rejects fossil fuels in pursuit of zero emissions....

https://www.theguardian.com/business...n-fossil-fuels