CAFE stds on the chopping block

Norway is a country of 5 million people and has most of their population living in a few urban centers unlike the U.S. They are also very wealthy because of their oil exports (a little bit of irony there) so they can afford eccentricities like EV's. There's also the SLOT effect as a poster mentioned earlier. Everyone things EV's are non-polluting which is absolutely not the case, they just move the pollution site somewhere down the chain. The electricity has to be generated somewhere, if that's done by a coal plant then there's your carbon dioxide source. Nuclear would be the most non-polluting but that causes most greenies to break out in hives. There's also the energy and pollution involved in making the batteries for them, there's a lot of nasty pollution issues involved in manufacturing batteries.

All in all EV's really aren't practical now for most of the world and they aren't as non-polluting as the EV proponents make them out to be. Maybe one day they'll be more practical, but it's going to take significant technology improvements for them to become mainstream in the U.S.