Here's a glimpse of the EV future from Norway, where the future is now

The New York Times has taken a close-up look at the electric future.

It’s called Norway.

Jack Ewing is a veteran Times reporter who has spent years examining the automotive industry from vantage points that’ve included Germany and the United States. In a detailed report published yesterday in The Times, Ewing circled Norway — where 80 percent of new-car sales last year were electric cars — to assess the benefits and drawbacks of leading the EV charge.

In shifting its focus from combustion-powered to battery-powered mobility, Norway, Ewing writes, has become “an observatory for figuring out what the electric vehicle revolution might mean for the environment, workers and life in general.”

In interviews with auto dealers and executives in that Scandinavian country, along with electricity suppliers, lawmakers, residents of the capital city Oslo and workers who’ve learned to deal with frustrated customers at charging stations, Ewing pretty much covers the Norway experience from all angles.