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The biggest driver of sales is undoubtedly the tax break: For EVs the VAT (sales tax) of 25 percent is dropped for the first 500k NOK of the car’s price (~50k USD).
Last month, 94.2 percent of all sold (registered) cars were BEVs (so hybrids not included). The top two models were Tesla Model Y and Volvo EX30.
Charging infrastructure is great, and omnipresent. The price of electricity has actually gone up quite a bit the last couple of years, but gas/petrol and diesel is still quite a bit more expensive (think ~8 USD/gallon)
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These are my observations, however I haven't fact checked.
Most new chargers are 150kW I believe, however many of the older ones are 50kW. Tesla also has quite a few superchargers, where some (or maybe all?) of their chargers are opened up for other cars. (In Europe, or at least Norway, Tesla doesn't use their own proprietary plug)
There are comparatively very few public AC chargers, but many (most?) people have one at home, since charging directly from the socket is legally regarded as a backup solution. Most people charge at home and use the DC chargers for longer trips.
I believe the price per kW for DC charging is about 6 times more expensive than charging at home.