Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Electric car owners provoked – won't pay full price

They may be able to afford expensive cars like the Porsche Taycan, but Norwegian electric car owners won't accept paying for parking.

Electric car owner Demal Jakic is one of those who feels his toes have been stepped on. He has to pay to park at the public park in the Norwegian city of Trondheim.

He believes he has been promised free parking. Precisely because he drives an electric car. The airport management, which does not want to respond to the criticism, also advertises free parking for electric cars.

This is what Motor.no writes.

But the free good apparently requires that the electric car is equipped with a dedicated electric car license plate. In Norway, this kind of thing typically starts with EV.

In Norway, however, it is possible to equip electric cars with completely ordinary license plates without necessarily missing out on some of the benefits to which electric cars are entitled.

At least in public space. But it's not quite like that on private property. Now Demal Jakic is asking himself whether he is a second-rate driver in the eyes of the airport management.

– Does that mean I am not environmentally friendly, or that I am less environmentally friendly than electric car owners with electric car plates, he tells the media.

Neither the airport nor the parking company that manages the airport's parking area are very keen to answer why electric car owners have to pay for parking when it is advertised that parking is free for them.

However, it is not because electric car owners in Norway have not been warned that they risk running into problems.

Both the police and the Danish Public Roads Administration have previously warned drivers against choosing 'fossil license plates' for electric cars. Among other things, because there is a risk of confusion.

However, electric car owners still think it is unfair that they can be asked to pay for parking when they choose to drive an electric car.

Parking is not the only thing that Norway's increasingly large number of electric car owners risk paying more for in the future.

The country is reaching a point where the many billions that have been spent on supporting electric cars with low taxes must be recouped.

To begin with, several places in the country have banned electric cars from using bus lanes. In addition, the tax on the most expensive cars has been increased.

And now there is a discussion about how drivers should pay for the fact that the generally heavier electric cars are destroying the roads in the capital Oslo. Read more about it here .

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