Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on electric vehicles in Norway outnumbering petrol cars

Norway, one of the world's largest exporters of oil, now has more electric cars on its roads than petrol-powered models.

Out of the 2.8 million private cars registered there, 754,303 are now all-electric - according to new reports from the Norwegian Road Federation.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says the country aims to be the first to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2025.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ooh, there's a dispute over a song and whether it's
the same, and it involves Miley Cyrus and Bruno Masmann.
Lek you be the decider of that. Shortly fourteen away
from Stephen Gavin Gray are UK correspondents with us?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now, Hey Gevin, good morning?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hell Yes, so the pager thing is not a good
look for the company that makes the pages, right.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Indeed, so the company is called gold Apollo, And as
we know, nine people including a child, killed after these
handheld pages used by members of Hazbala exploded across Lebanon.
But the question is, well, how did that happen? And
the boss, the founder of this Taiwanese company, gold Apollo,
says the pages were reportedly made in Europe under license.

(00:42):
Now the man is refusing to name the European country
or indeed the European firm that had the right to
do this, But this model of device AR nine two
four was certainly being made in Europe, and earlier security
services telling Reuter's agency that Israel's Mossad spy agency planted

(01:03):
a small amount of explosives inside five thousand pages brought
by Hezbollah. But at the moment, no agreement or no
confirmation from Israel about that. But it is said that
with five thousand pages, of course, this could be the
start of something very very lengthy to further exacerbate the
situation in the Middle East.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
So what is the point of what the boss of
this company is trying to do. Are they trying to
say they themselves weren't infiltrated. Is it them trying to
distance themselves from possibly Israel or are they trying to
brand protect you? Because I don't know that it helps
with the brand.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
No, I mean, I actually don't think I don't think
he's trying to do either. I think it's just a
sort of a comment or a reporter that they weren't
made in Taiwan, they were made in Europe. And it
does kind of not detract in any way from the
answers that have to be a given. But if something
is made under license, of course those license conditions are
very strict. But it does therefore if Israel is responsible

(02:02):
that Mossa is operating within Europe quite freely and managing
to get into what would one would think anyway a
very sensitive high tech manufacturing organizations and high tech manufacturing headquarters.
So This is definitely something that a lot of the
people around Europe are going to be looking at to
see what company was making this under license.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, very good point, now, Gavin Norway. So it's
got more evs on on the roads now than ice vehicles.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, isn't this an interesting one? So Norway's really spearheading
the way of the two point eight million private cars
registered in Norway now, seven hundred and fifty four thousand
are all electric, seven hundred and fifty three thousand run
on petrol. The country has five and a half million people.

(02:52):
It's aiming to become the first nation to end the
sale of new petrol and diesel cars by twenty twenty five,
so it is a very very tight deadline for those
of course, but the sales of EV's electric vehicles really
boosted in Norway by the government introducing big tax breaks
and other incentives for those people buying these electric vehicles.

(03:15):
But of course may will point to the country being
massively wealthy. It has a sovereign wealth front of nearly
three trillion New Zealand dollars built up from the proceeds
of oil fields, and it is interesting that this country,
which is the largest exporter of oil now has such
a big push on electric vehicles.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, so listen on on Catherine. She's had her first engagement,
but it's not one that the public's been able to
see her.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
At no correct. So good news in that Princess Catherine,
the Princess of Wales, Prince William's wife, has attended her
first work meeting, but it was behind closed doors at
Windsor Castle. We only found out about it after it
had happened, and it was about one of the charities,

(04:01):
one of the groups that she's involved in, about Early
Childhood Project because so she's very very keen on the
fact that the things that you learn in your childhood
and experience in your childhood really do come to life
in your later years. Of course, this follows the video
message last week where she revealed that her chemotherapy had

(04:22):
ended and the relief, saying had been incredibly tough, but
says there was a renewed sense of hope for the future,
and I think we're now beginning to see her slowly
return to royal life and royal duties. It'll be very
carefully managed. I think what many people are going to
be looking at is will she be able to actually
attend in person and in public remembrance events in Midvember,

(04:44):
but also the Christmas carol concerts coming up. For more
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