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If you鈥檙e looking for a window on the future of cars, take a gander at Norway.

In March, almost in the Scandinavian country were electric or plug-in hybrids. That鈥檚 the highest rate in the world. (In 2017, the comparable figure in the United States was 1 percent.)

As a result, say some analysts, gasoline, diesel, and oil lubricant sales in Norway are all .

Yes, there鈥檚 a bit of irony in that fossil fuel money is helping to pay for a national shift in thinking. Norway derives 15 percent of its economic output from oil. Its path to a moral high ground is government subsidized by as much as $8,200 per car per year (including about $5,000 worth of free parking). And Norway gets 99 percent of its electricity from hydropower, so citizens don鈥檛 have the ethical trade-offs many countries face. For example, is your Nissan Leaf juicing up with electricity from a coal-fired power plant?

But to quote the Oracle in 鈥淭he Matrix,鈥� 鈥渨hat鈥檚 really going to bake your noodle鈥� is that 鈥�56 percent of new car sales鈥� figure may be suppressed. Studies show that traditional auto dealers (even in Norway), for a variety of reasons, tend to .

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