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It is highly relevant though because it shows people are willing to buy electric at comparable price to ICE cars, even in a country with a spread out population and harsh climate.

Until the Norway experiment one could not know how much people care about using a fundamentally different car technology.

It shows that with likelyhood as EV prices drop sales will take off elsewhere.

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> It is highly relevant though because it shows people are willing to buy electric at comparable price to ICE cars, even in a country with a spread out population and harsh climate.

But because of the harsh climate, Fenno-Scandinavians are already used to plug their car when they park it at home or at work (to warm up the engine and the interior in wintertime). Less change, an habit of seeing plugs a bit everywhere and the knowledge that it is not so much of a practical, legal, financial problem to have such a network installed, so less reluctance to switch, compared to inhabitants of southern Europe who imagine, rightly or wrongly, major obstacles to overcome for everyday use.

But many of the electric car owners live in the cities. Here they can drive in the bus lanes and don't pay the road tolls. This makes an electric car an excellent commuter choice.

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