1) Hong Kong and Norway have the highest gasoline prices in the world
2) Despite having high gasoline costs, they both have normal electricity prices by global standards
3) High GDP per capita
4) Effectively high incentives to purchase electric cars (HK has zero FRT and low liscence fee while in Norway, you get tax deductions and don't need to pay tolls etc)
You will see from my attached table, I tried to estimate the annual savings of using an Electric Car versus using Gasoline assuming 15,000km per year, 12.5l/100km fuel consumption and 220w/km.
You can see that although Tesla is selling mostly in the USA, the USA has one of the weakest paybacks given how low gasoline prices are. Clearly European countries such as the UK and Western Europe would be extremely attractive markets. They really should start investing in superchargers there big time!
2) Despite having high gasoline costs, they both have normal electricity prices by global standards
3) High GDP per capita
4) Effectively high incentives to purchase electric cars (HK has zero FRT and low liscence fee while in Norway, you get tax deductions and don't need to pay tolls etc)
You will see from my attached table, I tried to estimate the annual savings of using an Electric Car versus using Gasoline assuming 15,000km per year, 12.5l/100km fuel consumption and 220w/km.
You can see that although Tesla is selling mostly in the USA, the USA has one of the weakest paybacks given how low gasoline prices are. Clearly European countries such as the UK and Western Europe would be extremely attractive markets. They really should start investing in superchargers there big time!