In October Norway decided to abandon a Tax on Tesla Electric cars. Was it because Tesla decided to build Europe's Largest Charging station in Norway?

Norway is already abandoning its plan for a "Tesla tax" on electric cars

Norway is miles ahead of the rest of the world in its adoption of electric cars, thanks to a series of generous government subsidies. But policymakers have often worried that the subsidies are too good amid criticism that they simply allow rich households to buy expensive electric cars on the cheap.

 From article, (Last month, Norway’s current minority government proposed to pull back tax incentives on electric cars that weighed more than two metric tons. It immediately became known as the “Tesla tax” because it was mostly likely to increase the cost of the new Tesla Model X, an SUV. Six weeks later and the government delivered a U-turn and scrapped the plan.

The Tesla tax was proposed as part of next year’s budget with the finance minister arguing that heavy electric cars caused a lot of damage to roads and their owners should contribute more to the cost of upkeep.)

Me, "I think Norway should realize that if it is road damage they are worried about, freight trucks cause more road damage. They weigh heavier than a Model X, by a lot.
This was just a plan to start slowly taking away subsides for electric cars. They tried to use Tesla as the first car company to do this to."

From article, (An agreement between the parties this week to pass the budget has seen the plan abandoned.

This will be good news to Tesla who had said last month—after the Tesla tax was announced—that it planned to build Europe’s largest charging station in Norway. There are more than 13,000 registered Teslas in Norway, according to the national statistics office, though the Nordic country has a more than 100,000 electric cars.)

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