Electric Vehicles

The spread out nature of Iceland's settlements means that car ownership is high per capita. Some public transport is available, but not as widespread as it would be in a large city.

In 2021, the market share of battery electric vehicles (BEV) was 28% and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) was 31%. 

This brings Iceland's plug-in market share to just under 60%, the second highest market share in the world. 

Wikipedia.

Details from the Kolvidur website:

Emissions from road transport in Iceland have increased steadily in recent years and amounted to 975 thousand tonnes in 2017.

The number of cars per inhabitant in Iceland is one of the highest in the world. Similarly, the car fleet here is energy intensive.

Source: https://kolvidur.is/minnkun-utblasturs/

I wondered how well developed the charging network was, given the fairly long distances between the main towns, and also the fact that the range of electric vehicles is much reduced in cold weather. It would make sense given the sustainable nature of electricity production in Iceland for 

It turns out of course that Iceland's geography and demographics are very favourable for electric vehicle ownership.

Iceland is one of the world’s most urbanized places. 94% of its population lives in urban areas, two-thirds in the capital region of Reykjavik. In addition, its size is ideal for electric vehicles: 500 km from west to east, and about 350 km from north to south. This means that most trips are well within EV range: Icelandic car owners, on average, drive approximately 38 km per day.

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Electric vehicle sales are therefore actually very high in Iceland.

The low cost of energy makes sense here in terms of recharging costs being low.

The company ON has a network of EV charging points around the country.

Image: 

Electric Vehicle charging point at Jokulsarlon

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