Total Electric Car Insanity! Spotting EVs Everywhere On A Quick Drive In Oslo, Norway

Kyle and Alyssa head out for a quick drive in the Oslo, Norway area looking for electric cars!
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[@EFrost411]

Snow tires are mandatory whenever the road conditions mandate them in Norway, so most people have 2 sets of wheels 🙂

[@boxer72]

3 or 4 of the Scania trucks on the right at Scania center (4:28 in the video) are battery electric heavy trucks. My workplace ASKO has 10 electric Scanias in Oslo with electric fridge/freezer units for delivery to grocery stores. The car 24:50 into the video I think it was a buddy. (Google buddy electric)

[@diZrupt0r]

Welcome to Norway! For us Norwegians this is nothing special, EVs have been everywhere here for several years now. So it shows that this is possible, if your government is interested 👍

[@MrStian78]

@Phillip Banes you have never been in Norway I can understand.

[@steinarhaugen7617]

@Phillip Banes ..."small part of the country"... People live all over Norway, not just in a small part of the country. For example, Norway is bigger than UK. The United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 33% larger than the United Kingdom.

[@unclej3910]

@@MrStian78 In the USA, it is 2,910 miles/4,683 Kilometers from San Francisco, CA to New York, NY. And i some western states, over 250 miles/402Kilometers between towns large enough to have EV charging. That's why we like having long range in an EV. I'm wondering why Norway and Europe have so many more EV's than in the USA? We are years behind.

[@ulfw]

@@unclej3910 nobody drives that regularly. In a car. You'd fly that if you going often.

[@AleksanderHoff]

@Phillip Banes we use them all over though. Been on road trips all over the country, and it’s about 2200km from Oslo to Kirkenes. We also drive them all the way down Europe… went to Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Italy and Switzerland summer 2022 in our Model X 100D. About 7000km or so. No issues at all! Done the trip in fossil cars before, and this felt even easier because we often charged while sleeping, for example at street parking in Slovenia on slow chargers.

[@hmsagbakken]

You stayed at Lilly country club, the only hotell in the village of Kløfta. 12 miniutes from the Airport. how ever if you at 6:25 had turned your head right you would have seen a farm 400m from the highway, where a man that emigrated to new mexico was born in 1870. His son, Conrad started a Hotell, then one more, then one more and so on. But no hotells in Norway. The name of the farm is Hilton

[@TheSaltyAdmiral]

Det visste jeg ikke, så kult! :)

[@vikingthedude]

be my guide i'll pay you

[@gtm559]

The most fascinating for me Norway is oil wealth and no matter this government made it super easy ev transition. When I travel with my van in Norway I always admire the progress of new companies, stations

[@larsyvindgrindrud8341]

Once upon a time the Buddy and Think EVSs were manufactured in Norway. The brands are now defunct. Now we have Paxter that is an EV made for distributon of mail and smallpackages,

[@javidam]

That was truly insane - as the title says... SO many EVs , wow and of course the humor that both Kyle and Alyssa have... fun video. Also - Kyle's knowledge of the cars passing by and behind, just from headlights... Who else knows this much?

[@jimj2683]

That is what happens when you remove the standard 25% VAT and the CO2/Weight/Power taxes (usually another 25-50% of the price) from EVs. In addition to giving access to taxi/bus-lanes, free parking, free toll. Gasoline/diesel is also heavily taxed. Thus an EV is cheaper to own in Norway than an equivalent ice car.

[@Orikix]

19:50 The red license plate means temporary sign, preferably a test drive😊

[@longislandevs]

I do something like this around my neighborhood in New York. When I go driving, I play a game with myself. I use an app called "ThingCounter" on my phone (mounted directly to the left of my steering wheel, not distracting). On the app, I have all typical EVs on the market listed. When I see one, I increment the counter by one. At the end of the trip, I have a count of every EV I've seen on the road. to go REALLY insane with the nerdy details, I've been recording those numbers in a spreadsheet, along with the miles driven for that day. That allows me to calculate the ratio of total EVs/Miles driven, as a way of scaling the frequency of EVs on the road. I'm also able to build trends that should if the amount of EVs I'm seeing is increasing over the weeks/months.

[@friedemanngadeke8366]

Really nice App. But the list of EVs out there is so long that it becomes inconvenient to enter them all inti the app.

[@VidarLund-k5q]

Very good. You may consider doing a doctorate on evs in your state.

[@neyvonswe]

@ 15:30 you see a white large building on the left. That is actually an all-year indoor ski slope (snø, Lørenskog). Pretty cool structure if you look it up.

[@PeterGregg]

There's a lot of "talk" here in USA about how more and more EV's are going to overload "the grid" and people trying to raise a scare over EV cars. I'd like to hear how a city with such a large load of EV's like Oslo is doing with so many EV cars in that town? Rolling blackouts? Can't use you electricity at night to charge? Do they have a crisis happening there? Can you share some of that experience since they have more EV's on the road than most places please. Nice video, big thumbs up 👍👍👍

[@fixandtests]

We have zero problems or limitations so far. Yes Oslo have many EVs , but also still more non EVs :-) so the problem is not there yet. if every car was an EV we would have to solve it differently. Home charging for everyone will not be an option in apartment areas and similar, at least not at the same time.

[@AleksanderHoff]

No issues here at the moment. We heard a lot of skeptics said this in the beginning about 6-7 years ago.. but it has mostly died out these days.

[@alexian81]

Check out this video from Engineering Explained: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZXJqnpse72mi7c&ab_channel=EngineeringExplained If all cars from US would be electric, it would mean only a 30% increase of energy consumption. Is it much? Maybe, but it definitely is something that it can be predicted and covered. Unless, ofcourse, nothing is done for this...

[@mravecsk1]

Zero problems.. Is bakery happy to sell more bread? Yes... It is the same with electricity.

[@tronderikbrekke8792]

At the moment we currently use about 1% of the total national power consumption to power our EVs. Homes use about 30%. So it's not at all an issue. Nor will it ever be. Currently about 18% of all cars in Norway are EVs. About 80% of all new cars are EVs. So it's safe to say this works. Even in a country where the difference between hottest temperature and coldest temperature reach a staggering 87ºC. And where the main road have to go over the mountains to connect the west to the east. It's still not enough to make EVs a problem. In fact I'd argue it's the optimal car for just about every single living situation. As would it be in the US too. Or anywhere else in the world for that matter. Well maybe not the thickest part of Africa, they still need their Toyota Hilux trucks and cars of that nature.

[@TheJAMF]

24:48 A rare sighting of a "Buddy", with a range of between 12 and 37 miles. 😱 "Range anxiety? Wussies!" 🤣😋😉 Also, belated Hippo Birdy!🥳

[@thatfloridian5719]

Good spot I would have missed it

[@TheJAMF]

@@thatfloridian5719 😊 At first I thought it could have been a Th!nk, but in the camera view from Alyssa, the profile was not a Th!nk. [EDIT] Oopsie, correct name spelling is with a Y

[@svedman]

I owned one of those from 2006 😂 Now I have a Model Y.

[@eddiehaug]

Happy b-day Kyle! Really enjoying your daily videos from Norway :) - I hope you guys can do something about the audio of the videos. A simple setup with a camera and a mic mounted on it, or if you could use those wireless mics Bjørn uses, would make your videos even better. Keep it up!

[@BillB33525]

Glad you are having so much fun. Hope you can review th up coming Q8 etron and of course the SQ8 etron as well.

[@ferniegutierrez5605]

Wow the driving behavior was just so calm and why does the US have the worst highways 😂

[@Blackadder75]

Because you don't want to pay taxes, it's all ME ME ME in the us. Governments don't have money to improve the public space, that's why the whole country looks so shabby, despite being very rich. People only improve their private gated community, the rest can rot.....

[@tusharsaikhedkar9808]

Come to India my friend.

[@androo4519]

I wonder when we'll get the first video from somebody driving around counting fossil cars!

[@AudunWangen]

Almost every new car sold in Norway (around 80%) is electric, so in 5-10 years there won't be many to count.

[@KjetilBalstad]

@@AudunWangen 90% if we only count the consumer market...

[@loriallen67]

You have just seen WAY more Mach Es than I’ve seen in the states in the last 18 months total. Wow. We’ve seen exactly 4 since we got ours.

[@Blackadder75]

It used to be the united states, but now they are divided, so just 'the states'

[@Blackadder75]

@Phillip Banes that's an excellent example of a division you give here: Between 'Real Americans' and 'those who pretend to be Americans'

[@blackcoffeeandbooks8884]

Haha! This is how it will look everywhere eventually, they are just a little ahead of everyone else.

[@ThorbjrnPrytz]

@20.00 That weird lisence plate is a dealers temporary plate. Dealerships buy these, and can use to shuttle cars, demo, etc for unregisterd cars.

[@davidkendall2272]

Way to go Norway. Very impressive to see how fast EV adoption is going there. Now if only the U.S. adoption would speed up similarly.

[@RomanChaar]

NEEERRRRRRD, the irony is that being a nerd is fun and shows someone has passion.

[@christiangullerud5207]

orange one is called buddy, norwegian produced EV :) an the red licence plate you saw is a temporary plate, for test drive ore moving the car from one place to another :)

[@nighthawk8412]

Happy belated birthday Kyle.

[@sulliken77]

Lily Contry club. The Golf-Resort just outside the small town of Kløfta, where I live 🙂 And I'm driving an EV, of course. A blue MG ZS EV It's funny seeing you guys drive the same route I drive several times a week :-)

[@CryptoJoeTrading]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for all the great content!

[@martinstensvehagen9161]

Winter tyres are not optional. Unless you want a fine

[@TheOisannNetwork]

I started high school in Trondheim, Norway in 2011 and had a pretty long bus ride. I was counting Teslas back then, but in the span of a few months I went from counting cars to counting days I didn't see one.

[@unclej3910]

Where i live, you would spot Subaru Outbacks, Foresters, Crosstreks. Toyota 4 Runners, RAV 4's, Tacomas, Tundras. Jeep Wranglers, Grand Cherokees. 4x4 pickups (Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota, RAM).

[@Gazer75]

@19:45 Those are temporary plates. Dealers have them, and you can get one temporarily at the NPRA if you're just moving a vehicle one day or so and don't need to get it fully registered.

[@2013AirForce]

Very cool video. Thanks for making the video and taking your viewers for a little drive in Norway. Btw the audio sounded good in the beginning, but as soon as you’re in the driver’s seat the audio was very quiet and hard to hear.

[@mmanjin]

Vacationing in Guadalajara, Mexico and I haven't seen a single EV. A few Prius's but those are hybrids and not true BEV. Don't know about the rest of Mexico but as the second largest city in Mexico that was very surprising and unexpected. Europe on the other hand and China are moving rapidly toward EVs along with other countries.

[@MrStian78]

@Phillip Banes you are wrong also on this comment. Do some research before you comment stupid statements.

[@sentryion3106]

@Phillip Banes an ice is a lot less efficient than a coal generator let alone a natural gas plant. Because Europe struggles with less natural gas from Russia is exactly why they have more incentive to go full ev

[@alterbr33d]

I noticed that on Google Street View, even when its a few years behind, or in other parts of the country.

[@t_q1799]

They've got a lot of E-Trons, which recently became the best selling EV in Norway after Tesla. We also need some of these vebicles in the US market.

[@Allan13k]

Did you really say an EQC is cramped? How much space do Americans want/need haha

[@Noraf142]

Another ting to be aware of is that electric cars here in Norway doesn't have to be on an E-plate

[@Yanquetino]

Hope your Burpy was Happy among the Vikings! They are so much more civilized and progressive than on this side of the pond: I calculated that just last month in Norway EVs constituted 77.5% of all cars sold. That white LEAF you passed was identical to the one I used to have. I'd love to relinquish my Model 3 for the Ioniq 5 you passed, but… they are so scarce here. You're sure going to have very short days and extremely long nights on your trip north! Also… gotta say: Alyssa has an amazingly steady hand with the camera!

[@hakis86]

The small orange car is a Buddy Electric. I guess kind of a spiritual succesor to the THINK ev that excisted maaany years ago :)

[@danielraiter]

It might have been easier to just count the ICE cars!

[@leaflover3497]

There are a lot of EV commercials now in the US.

[@mmayo1320]

Happy Birthday, Kyle!!! Fun video, so many EV

[@lh2338]

Happy Belated Birthday Kyle! When were you in SF? I want to see that video. Next time you're in the Bay Area, try driving on El Camino Real between San Carlos and Palo Alto. You should reach a decent count there.

[@miloe436]

Red background and white text is car dealer temporary plates.

[@mcunha81]

Norway actually rewards Ev owners with incentives and other encouraging things, unlike america... go Norway!!

[@1sword4you]

Interesting how different countries differentiate EV cars from non-EV by number plates. We have special designation license plates that are black lettering on a light blue background, instead of black on white. That means that even if you get a customized license plate it will still show that it is EV and you will be able to use municipal benefits, like free parking.

[@arnegerhardsen3755]

Audi e-tron was the most sold car in Norway in 2020. As known this was one of the first real family electric car from Audi and one of a few besides Tesla. Some people bought e-tron which was an expensive car after some so called experts was a bit too eager to tell about all the benefits with ev's and told that evs had much less loss of value than other cars, but had forgotten the long wayting lists for new electric cars which for one or two years gave higher demand for used evs. And at the same time the market for new models with cheaper electric family cars with longer range nearly exploded. The used e-trons got strong competitions from new more efficient and cheaper electric family cars. Altough the e-trons is really good evs from a well known brand, a lot more new e-trons sold in 2020 than the used demand. And the used ev's have fallen more in price than most people thought when they were bought, and the e-tron 50 has been really difficult to sell because even though it's probebly more importent for much people with a comfortable, secure and reliable car it's all about range these days. After evs got relatively big pricedrops in 2023 and much people was careful in buying new cars, this gave even bigger price reduction on new cars where Tesla model Y was starting with a crazy price drop on new cars here in Norway. It's still hard competition and my wife ordered a new ev this spring because of prices for new ev's in stock that we couldn't dream of one year ago. The annonced new weight tax and VAT for new evs with prices over 50.000 USD from January 2023 made people veryy afraid of paying that extra tax and VAT that they bought a new ev years before they had thought. And although this near complete stop in the sale of new cars both because of this and the situation all over the world, the importers had to take their ordered cars and have them in stock. And on these cars people have got better deals than they who bought before the new taxes. This has been completely crazy difficult times in the car industry, not only in Norway.

[@VampyrMygg]

Some cars can be too early for even getting EL plates, 90s electric Peugeot Partners or 106 will have normal regional plates, same with the Norwegian Buddy ones, and the Th!nk. Basically as if in the US someone who had a Dodge Caravan EPIC would have been pre special EV license plates in Norway, as I first saw them when Teslas started getting really popular around 2012-2013. I worked in a shop for US cars here in Norway, but also a battery dealership, so we had a couple of the Norwegian made Buddy in the shop, one early 2000s, and one I think was an '89, and they were old enough to basically be registered as motorcycles, and the batteries were terrible, your seat was basically atop like 6 serial connected car batteries :P The oldest one was silver and looked old with square headlamps and such, the newer one was bright orange, like the one you spotted, so I think that was a factory color, and the headlamps are two small round ones that look like they're covered in melted cheese.

[@perfectionpekanbaru]

Happy belated birthday Kyle... i wonder if EV cars might getting less popular in Norway since Dec2022. As I read (somewhere..😄) that some benefits for the use EV has been reduced and price for charging has gone up by 3 folds... Correct me if i am wrong.

[@friedrichkoch5307]

Happy belated birthday Kyle 🎉❤

[@thomasschellenberger4950]

What great video. Have you met Bjorn Nyland at norway? I‘d would have been a great KZbin Crossover of „my“ two favorite KZbinr. 😀

[@jackelder4344]

The population of Norway is smaller than most of big cities in America, only 5 mln. 90% of electricity come from hydro power stations. Norwegians are ones of the richest in the world.

[@merog2]

There are right now 1 Mercedes EQV police car testing in norway. The police use electric cars as "administrations" vehicles. But the police have a 5 year deal with Volvo xc90 police car and with Mercedes with the Vito/V-class.

[@beltrams]

And they seem to charge them all without crashing the grid too! I. Am. Shocked. (Well, not really.)

[@anderseriksen4670]

Cool, i was at the hotel this weekend. With my Electric Hyundai Kona😀

[@chas60422]

Its amazing how very few personal pickup trucks are driven in Norway. I wonder the few that were passed by were work pickups as supposed to the US where its more varied.

[@fixandtests]

You will see more pickup out in the districts , but way less than US. Most will be work related. Pickups with 4-5 seats get hit hard by car import/registration taxes etc. so they become very expensive . Most will have a green license plate registered as a "cargo vehicle " and then its only front seats. This will greatly reduce the usability for a family, but it will cut the cost with at least 40% We also do have small parking spots. A 5seat Isuzu Diesel pickup cost the same as a Mercedes GLC 300e 4matic.....

[@jonhroarulstad5775]

In a country with snow, it makes more sense to have a van to work out of. Pickups are popular among farmers or excavator operators and similar.

[@VampyrMygg]

Might be because I worked in a shop specialized in US cars, but I see a fair share of pickups here in Norway, thought I think we just have different needs for our cars? Through work I borrowed a '89 F150, 4 speed stick shift with a 4.9 I6, so a weird truck to begin with... But with one passenger going shopping, we had no room for the shopping, as it was a manual we couldn't put it in the middle, so the bags of shopping had to go in the open bed... in rain, I kinda felt pickups that don't have at least room behind the seats are useless for daily driving.

[@jimj2683]

Come to Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. It is a rich area with almost only EVs.

[@steinarhaugen7617]

I have a cabin there.

[@sreethampan]

Happy b' day my friend, thanks a lot for the video.

[@bernardsegonnes1335]

I m coming for a short road trip I Norway in may It'd be cool if I see you or Bjorn on the road. It'll be my 1st Ev and 1st time in Norway. I hope I can pay recharge using credit card. Have a nice trip

[@sicario4254]

Happy belated Birthday, mate! 🍻

[@sicario4254]

I’d imagine air quality is off the charts good in Norway! I know you guys are higher up in elevation in States, noticed any difference in air quality? Btw, one cannot beat getting a world tour sitting in the living room. Having said that. Any plans on traveling to Japan, or Singapore in distant future? There has to be some EVs there, yeah?! Cheers!

[@rkan2]

With studded tires the air quality can get quite bad between seasons but of course in the summer things are usually quite good.

[@Hansen710]

sadly norway is a part of the rest of the world and air quality depends on many factors.. we can track the historie of air polution from all over the world, from the ice on Greenland.. so something have to pass over norway when going that way

[@montymatth2409]

Happy birthday Kyle.

[@MacEliot]

Happy Birthday, man.

[@MrStian78]

Note to you! Electric cars do not have to go with reg.number starting with E. I have a Porsche Taycan with SX xxxxx on the plate.

[@janfrodeengh5904]

They had to initially i think, but we're beginning to run out available "E" signs.

[@Orikix]

4:15 You almost said «interesting» in Norwegian

[@steinarhaugen7617]

I noticed the same. Interesting. 😃

[@scotduckrow8524]

At 4:05 I believe you passed the TeslaBjorn last chance charger!

[@ObserverDingue]

Happy birthday Kyle, I hope you got to try out some Norwegian cake! 🍰

[@USATFJUMPER]

the e-niro would of been great for me but I had a phev. I want an ev6 though looks great I don't like the new body look on the 2023 e-niro also happy belated birthday

[@CrumResearch]

Count PHEVs too! Especially those with big batteries. Industrial trucks too.

[@TriviaChallenge]

"But EVs don't work in the cold!"

[@christoffero89]

Haha😂. Works perfectly fine

[@codybrekken6246]

Love the content Kyle. Keep it up!

[@bl_leafkid4322]

Average yearly kms do Norway driver's drive per year?

[@solva5085]

The orange tiny e car, I pretty sure it was a Think ;-) Yes, we do have a lot of electric cars here in Norway.

[@miloe436]

No, it was a Buddy.

[@williamelkington5430]

Happy birthday, Kyle! Say, why do you think there are so many BEVs in Norway?

[@mech-E]

I wonder what the proportion of commercial vehicles is electric in Norway

[@FluffyGoat91515]

Happy belated birthday Kyle! I also hope to travel to the EU countries someday too. Safe travels! ❤😊😉

[@northof-62]

No wonder when regular vehicles have been and still are taxed 125% on purchase price here

[@WinkelHoof]

Ironic that it is the exporting of oil that made the expansion of electric cars possible in Norway. The oil money pays for the subsidies.

[@anthonyc8499]

Happy belated birthday!

[@DNHarris]

You sound like you have a cold. A gift from Norway.

[@steven4315]

Biggest surprise? Ford Raptor, in Norway

[@henningaasland8704]

Those are infact quite common here..

[@steven4315]

@@henningaasland8704The Raptor version or the far more common F-150?

[@Allan13k]

@@steven4315 Raptors, quite a few ram 1500s around as well

[@steven4315]

@@Allan13k Never would have guessed, both are thirsty. Thanks.

[@NeroSelle]

@@steven4315 Pickups are not common in Norway at all, especially the bigger ones. On the most used webpage for used cars in Norway there is currently 84 Ford F series trucks for sale, that is total for all versions (F150, F250....) and years for the country. If you look at only the 2010s and newer, most of them are raptors. Nobody gets a base model pickup, if it is for personal use they get a SUV, if it is for work they get a Van

[@videopyc]

happy birthday 🎂 kyle

[@b6s4shelter]

I second the vote for Enyaq in USA!

[@sjokomelk]

But you already have it with a VW badge. ID4 is the same car...

[@b6s4shelter]

@@sjokomelk it's not at all the same except EV parts. Completely different upper shell

[@jonpetter8921]

EQE is going to fill Norwegian taxi fleet replacing the E class

[@stianborresen3946]

The oranges strange car you see is EV called Buddy (time 24:47). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_(electric_car)

[@eckligt]

This would have been SO good with some graphics to help us keep track of the count.

[@AryehAkov]

How Norway Built An EV Utopia While The U.S. Is Struggling To Go Electric | CNBC Documentary kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGank4Wvmr-BiM0

[@GameOver556]

Happy birthday that day 🇺🇸

[@roadstoridenorwaydriving101]

i ll see u on the roads of norway 😁 when u come to US pls review the chevy s electric suv 😎👌

[@tazeat]

Whoa, wouldn't have expected to see a Raptor, cool!

[@douglasalanthompson]

Over 75K Leafs in Norway, and hundreds more every month.. still

[@Sailorman6996]

Cheese box is Buddy electric 2 to 3 seater

[@niosanfrancisco]

GO NIO !

[@VidarLund-k5q]

Nearly 90 percent of new car sales are electric now, November 2024.

[@drewdonato9796]

Love to see all the EVs

[@artfeingold3856]

Do you guys have a Patreon membership available?

[@plushiie_]

raptors are rare, its close to 200k usd

[@rajthomas4224]

Happy Late Birthday!!!

[@Matt-dx3wo]

Nor way!

[@terrymattingly6843]

Just how MUCH more dependable is non-Tesla charging there? Can you put a percentage on it?

[@christoffero89]

Have driven 5 years with electric car. Work about 99% of the time is my experience

[@terrymattingly6843]

@@christoffero89 Envy.

[@christoffero89]

@@terrymattingly6843 they fix it fast if it's broken. One charger did not work at IKEA when I went in. On the way out they already repairing it😊

[@MrStian78]

@@terrymattingly6843 I have a Porsche Taycan and a Audi Etron. I work in sales and drive all over Norway, no problem with hyper charging what so ever.

[@PierreSimonsson]

Hope Marcus Putts Studded Tires on that Model 3 Performance you migth need it in the North :D

[@justanotherguy7798]

Happy belated birthday🎉