{"id":683,"date":"2017-06-14T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=683"},"modified":"2017-06-14T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:06:39","slug":"from-the-web-37-of-norways-new-cars-are-electric-they-expect-it-to-be-100-in-just-8-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/14\/from-the-web-37-of-norways-new-cars-are-electric-they-expect-it-to-be-100-in-just-8-years\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: 37% of Norway\u2019s new cars are electric. They expect it to be 100% in just 8 years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-684\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-14-at-11.57.04-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1382\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-14-at-11.57.04-AM.png 1382w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-14-at-11.57.04-AM-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-14-at-11.57.04-AM-768x458.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-14-at-11.57.04-AM-1024x611.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-14-at-11.57.04-AM-500x298.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>The global electric vehicle (EV) revolution reached another milestone last month as EVs made up 37 percent share of Norway\u2019s car market.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the country hit 100,000 zero-emission EVs on the road, projected to quadruple to 400,000 by 2020. These numbers are especially remarkable for a country of only 5.2 million people. Over five percent of all of Norway\u2019s cars are EVs, up from one percent two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Norway\u2019s transportation minister says it is \u201crealistic\u201d that sales of new fuel-burning cars could end by 2025. EVs may win on straight economics then, but the country\u200a\u2014\u200aand others\u200a\u2014\u200ahave been considering outright bans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/norway-aims-to-end-sales-of-fuel-burning-car-by-2025-as-ev-market-soars-edeac854f1e\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a> <em>(via ThinkProgress)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global electric vehicle (EV) revolution reached another milestone last month as EVs made up 37 percent share of Norway\u2019s car market. In December, the country hit 100,000 zero-emission EVs on the road, projected to quadruple to 400,000 by 2020. These numbers are especially remarkable for a country of only 5.2 million people. Over five &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/14\/from-the-web-37-of-norways-new-cars-are-electric-they-expect-it-to-be-100-in-just-8-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: 37% of Norway\u2019s new cars are electric. They expect it to be 100% in just 8 years.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-b1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}