I recently spent a week in Norway with my family. Highly recommended overall. While we were mostly able to get around the country by train, we needed to rent a car to get to a small, remote village where my great grandfather came from, and where I still have relatives. Prior to the drilling of several massive car tunnels in the 1980s and 1990s, Fjaerland was only accessible by boat.

And if you are renting a car in Norway today, it’s highly likely you will be renting an electric car (unless you specifically ask for a gas-powered car, as the older German couple in front of me at the rental counter did). The vast majority of new cars sold in Norway (over 90%) are electric, and since most rentals are new cars, that’s what they have.

Norway has made the biggest push in the world through public policy to encourage EV adoption, both for buying cars and for building up a charging infrastructure. In this post I will primarily focus on the consumer experience of renting an EV, though the public policy surrounding it is worth a discussion too.

So how was the experience?

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