What's the EV Charging Infrastructure in Norway Really Like?

Norway is a world leader in EV adoption, and being a world leader in EV charging enables and follows that. In this video, we tour various segments of EV charging in Norway - street parking/charging, malls / shopping, workplace, hotel and corridor charging.

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Drone footage shot with DJI Mavic Air 2 or DJI Mini 2, other footage on Sony A7 siii or iPhone 13 Pro and all editing done in Final Cut Pro on Apple M1 MacBook Air.

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[brandenflasch]

What part of this would you like to see come to the US the most?

[RNbiker]

This is a great video, thanks for making it! I drive a 2019 Chevy Bolt since Feb 2020. In the last few years I've watched our infrastructure for electric vehicles go from barely detectable to "okay, we have some". Norway is way, way ahead of us. It's easy to see some of the reasons from your video. The rows of on-street level 2 chargers, apartment-friendly charging stations and numerous level 3 DCFCs all tell the story. Encouraging! If Norway can do it we can as well.

[ewawiman]

Q1 2022 in Norway 83% av all new registered cars were BEV, 7% were Hybrid and just under 10% was fossil-fuel-cars / ICE-cars. That is impressive. They have by law nowdays that new parking lots must be either prepared for charging infrastructure or built with chargers.

Leading up towards this situation. For quicker adoption of EV:s. They had for a number of years tax exemption for EV:s, free parking in city centers, EV:s could use the carpool-lane/taxi-bus-lanes and other measures that promoted EV:s as vehicles for the future. Some of those measure are being dialed down or is going to be dialed down because of todays adoption of EV:s in Norway.

I would like to see more charge-infratstructure all over the world and more solar-farms for charging purposes and more legislation that help promote EV:s like the laws and regulations of Norway has done. Tax exemptions, fee exemptions and more.

[sjokomelk]

There is a law here in Norway saying that if you take payment or charge for parking, your parking lot has to have EV charging on at least 10% of the parking spaces. That is why there is so many Type2 charging stations in all the parking garages you visit.

[joshmatlock]

I think more Level II charging around apartments, work places and shopping areas would go a long way towards EV adoption in the US. Because right now people in apartments would have a very difficult time going EV...Even if shopping centers, apartments and work places just installed 240V outlets so people could bring their own charging units could be quite helpful.

[jonerzinger]

This is very impressive, it’s enough to make a person weep to see how far behind this we are in North America.

[Mobraks]

The Neo is frully automatic. Its really cool. It takes over the control of your car and parks it inside the booth for you. 5 minutes later you have a fully charged batteru innstaled

[brianriebedriveselectric]

Wow! I love how there seems to be charging (and variety of decent power levels) everywhere. Lounge areas seemed pretty welcoming too. Looking forward to this coming to North America.

[SpaceCakeism]

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Branden: E... 8... 18? ...
Me: Dude, the sign is literally right in front of you, it says E134...

[BrandonDoyle.]

thats really cool, looking forward to when we have similar setups here in the US

[siasek]

That's absolutely amazing, I hear we can't do that! I guess they forgot about it in Norway. :D

[bobsande]

Branden. You say to tap the rfid card, easy. But where do you get the rfid card?? I’m going to rent in late July and mostly am concerned about card or app access and I don’t see anyone talking about how to get started with the proper card or account.

[trustinflames]

That is very impressive. Here in the U.K. we have a handful of charging stations like the circle k at the end of this video. But the rest of our infrastructure is woefully behind when it comes to EV. As it stands I can’t charge at home so will be sticking with ICE until infrastructure has caught up.
One thing I still find very ironic about Norways adoption of EV, is how a lot of it is subsidised by the government, what will most likely be paid for by the oil and gas that Norway produces.

[inferno]

I wonder if having a detached cable standard like what’s used for the type 2 connector would help increase the amount of level 2 chargers on the street and in garages in North America

[eivindhelle]

When I purchased my first EV in 2015, most of this infrastructure did not exist. So it is possible to build a lot of infrastructure in less than 10 years.

[Nill]

PV panels of the charging station canopy have a small tilt? Should be fixed at 60deg in Norway.

[JosephHowes]

You would think that businesses would want to add level 2 charging. Most don't charge for parking now so even if they don't see it as a way to encourage people to use their business, they could at least profit off of people parking. I would think that they could negotiate lower rates with the electric company (maybe there could be a subsidy too) and they could charge a reasonable amount more than people pay at home for the convenience.

[gothazoth]

hi Branden, would I be able to use your drone footage of circle K in our university powerpoint presentation?

[pinkfreud]

I wanna visit Norway some day & I'm glad they still have fuel car rentals options. I don't wanna spend my vacation learning about how to use it or wait forever in a remote town while charging or hoping a small town motel has a charger. I'm not a big city person in big cities I don't know. I'm more of a nature sight seer. So I'm opting for gas while the option is still available. Just pump & go!

[Nill]

The supercharger 40 stall, 100 KW a stall, that’s some 4MW. How do they get the power in there? I see no overhead lines I’m anywhere. They bury everything in Norway, which means digging up everything ?

Same w that drone shot of the big outside charging near the gasoline station, no overhead utility cables at all.