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"Across the world, protests are breaking out at Tesla dealerships, with rising
intensity. New arson attacks against Tesla cars and infrastructure seem to be
happening every single day.
The owners of Tesla’s latest vehicle, the Cybertruck, are reporting universal
harassment ranging from cheese slices thrown at vehicles to threatening
attacks.
Tesla owners who bought into a progressive vision of climate action suddenly
find themselves representing a destructive, authoritarian and climate-denying
movement. The company’s share price is plummeting, and the renewables-hating US
President Donald Trump is reading out a very literal sales pitch on the white
house lawn.
In short: Tesla is far from being a neutral car brand, in 2025. It has become a
physical representation of a truly scary political shift centred in the US but
affecting the whole world.
I currently live in a city that we can safely assume has the single highest
proportion of Tesla vehicles anywhere in the world.
Norway has led the world in EV deployment: effectively nearly all of the new
cars sold are fully electric vehicles. In 2024, around 88% of all new vehicles
sold were electric; and about 26% of all registered passenger cars in Norway in
2024 were electric.
The latest data only go to 2023 for passenger car emissions, but they have
fallen 33%, mostly due to the deployment of these electric alternatives.
I was curious to know what proportion of Norway’s EVs are made by Tesla.
Walking around on the streets of Oslo they are unavoidable – but Oslo has among
the highest concentrations of EVs within the nation.
What the data shows is that only 5% of all registered passenger cars in Norway
are Teslas – though a full 20% of all registered pure-electric passenger cars
are Teslas."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
