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The Journey to Guilt-Free Travelling
The future of electric mobility
The way we move around is changing. With rising awareness of environmentally damaging mobility practices and a shift towards clean energy, we’re seeing innovative technologies for land, sky and sea.
Electric Vehicles
A lot has changed in a decade. In 2010, there were 345 EVs in the USA, with a standard range of 100km and taking 6 to 8 hours to charge. Now, there are an estimated 1.4 million EVs with ranges of up to 500km and 80% charging in 12 minutes with fast-chargers.
In Europe, Germany aims to have a million EVs on the road by 2022 and the UK (amongst others) hopes to end the sale of fossil-fueled cars in the coming years.
In 2019, 42.4% of new cars in Norway were electric, this figure is expected to rise to 60% for 2020. Since it is the largest oil and gas producer in Europe, they’re making considerable decarbonisation efforts in other industries to meet their goals.
How? By making significant policy changes that provide suitable incentives to facilitate behavioural shifts. People are habitual and incentive-driven, so unless there are good reasons to change, we have a tendency to be stuck in our ways.
