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Powered By Nature, Stalled By Infrastructure
Iceland’s EV reality falls short of its renewable promise The Golden Circle may promise epic scenery — but in an electric vehicle, the biggest question isn’t what you’ll see. It’s whether you’ll make it back with any battery left. In September 2024,…
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Iceland to Subsidise Electric Cars for Rental Companies
The Icelandic government is going to spend ISK 1 billion on subsidies for car rental companies to purchase electric vehicles. The move is part of the country’s effort to meet its climate goals by cutting carbon emissions, RÚV reports. The grants are…
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No More Free Parking For Electric Cars In Reykjavík Starting 2023
Rules that allow electric and hydrogen cars to be parked for free in Reykjavík’s paid parking lots for up to 90 minutes at a time will expire at the end of the year. The city’s Environment and Planning Council approved a proposal…
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70% Of New Cars In Iceland Are Electric or Hybrid
The sales and manufacture of EVs around the world have greatly increased in the past few years. In Iceland, about 400 electric vehicles have been registered in February alone. [su_pullquote]Easter is drawing closer and now we have Icelandic Easter Eggs back in…
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Tesla’s Charging Stations Now All Around The Country
According to Vísir, Tesla has now ensured that travelling along the Ring Road in its entirety is possible for those who want to use electric cars. Tesla opened charging stations recently in Höfn and Akureyri, which means that the road around Iceland…
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Opponents Of Bus Rapid Transit Propose One Electric Car For Each Current Bus Rider
While the City of Reykjavík is still planning to go ahead with Borgarlínan, a proposed capital area Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, one group of opponents has proposed another suggestion: giving an electric car to each current regular passenger of the bus…
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90 Electric Car Charging Stations In Reykjavik Over Next Three Years
The City of Reykjavík, in cooperation with two local utilities companies, aims to set up some 90 charging stations for electric cars all over the city. This was brought to light by an announcement on the official page of Iceland’s capital. The…
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Reykjavik Residents Divided Over Ban On Diesel Cars
According to a new survey published by Fréttablaðið, about 39% of people living in Reykjavík are in favour of a ban on diesel cars for the year 2030. In comparison, only 44% of inhabitants would be opposed to such measures. Finally, 17%…
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Last Fast Charging Station For Electric Cars Finally Installed On The Ring Road
Icelandic energy company ON Power has finally installed a fast-charging station in the area of Mývatn in the north of Iceland, thus officially opening the entire Ring Road to electric cars, Visir reports. According to ON Power, by the beginning of 2018…
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Icelanders Pre-order Electric Nissan Leaf Car En Masse
The bond between Icelanders and their cars is as akin to that of Italian men and their mothers: indissoluble, reverence-filled and sometimes a little disturbing. But if for Italian men there is only one mamma, Icelanders go by the motto ‘the more,…
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The Future is Coming: Electric Cars In Iceland
Iceland almost always gets better press than it deserves, and this applies not least to environmental issues. While most of the world sees us as happy hippie nature-loving moss-hugging pixie elves, the truth is that Icelanders have perhaps the largest ecological footprint…
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Iceland’s Environmental Paradox
The average tourist is primed to think of Iceland as the greenest nation on earth. Advertisements endlessly yammer on about “pure nature,” and shots from ‘Game of Thrones’ and popular movies portray Iceland as a vast, cold wilderness untouched by humans. Every…
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It’s Electric Car Time
Ah, the poor electric car. It has been a long road for you, hasn’t it? Clunky batteries that take a full day to charge and need frequent, costly replacement. Prices so dear that only the super-rich could even look at you. Tiny…