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Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

41 pointsby bogeholmtoday at 5:58 AM36 commentsview on HN

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sqbictoday at 7:30 AM

No wonder, the country is so small that any modern EV can drive it around completely with single charge. They also have abundance of especially wind energy, and the government recently dropped the electricity tax to EU minimum in order to make electricity very affordable for the Danish folks.

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wood_spirittoday at 7:20 AM

It is interesting that the big selling brands are Skoda (VW group) and VW itself, then a resurgent Tesla in third place. These are companies that are claiming hardship from Chinese EV imports and VW is planning to lay off 100K employees.

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donkeylazy456today at 7:46 AM

Mr. Trump unexpectedly, successfully promoted EV around the world!

langfotoday at 6:07 AM

Has the EV charging infrastructure kept pace with the EV adoption?

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thrownawaysztoday at 7:06 AM

In another news the sales of +10 years old diesel cars are not dropping in Romania and Bulgaria and Hungary and the Balkan countries

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Markofftoday at 7:30 AM

it is hidden behind paywall, here no paywall and in English

https://www.electrive.com/2026/08/04/denmark-evs-account-for...

also it should be noted that Denmark has extremely high car registration taxes, so for instance 40K EUR worth ICE car cost after registration 73.5K EUR, while 40K EUR BEV cost after registration 40K EUR, that's really tough choice to make - either you pay 73K EUR for ICE or 40K EUR for BEV, both with same price tag in dealership + BEV has other benefits like cheaper parking etc.

if gov were to remove these artificial (B)EV tax benefits then we would really see what would people choose, but gov is completely influecing the market, so people just do what is currently beneficial for their wallet, it is for sure not due to EV being good, do you think people would buy EVs if tax rates were reversed and ICE would cost 40K EUR and BEV would cost 73K EUR?

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WhyIsItAlwaysHNtoday at 7:23 AM

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