Norway´s electric vehicle deployment success. A historical review including plans for fast charging stations covering all of the country — By 2015

The history of electric vehicle dissemination in Norway is a successful one. Its 5 million inhabitants are already one of the biggest electric vehicle user nations in the world. The number of vehicles recently passed 12.000. It is expected that a total of 20.000 to 40.000 electric vehicles will be on the road in Norway in 2015 and 60.000 to 80.000 in 2020. Many of them will establish a clear link with the buildings where they are parked and renewable energy powered Zero Energy Buildings and Plus Energy Buildings can become a partner. Mutual benefits can develop between the transportation and the building sector. History is a useful tool to, in the aftermath, study how success was achieved, what worked well and what did not. This paper offers a historical review, studies the obstacles that have been overcome and points at a way forward, a way other nations pursuing the same track possibly can learn from. It also points at interesting new possibilities arising with cheap renewable fuels like solar energy being on the verge of becoming globally competitive.