Norway's Electric-Vehicle Milestone

By Rob Schmitz,

Christine Arrasmith

Published January 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM EST

A technician works on battery packs at Moller Mobility Group in Hvam, Norway, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. Norway is on the cusp of completing a transition away from combustion cars thanks to targeted incentives that made electrics an easy choice.

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Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.

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