Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Norway is leading the way in EV technology. Can other countries learn from it?

Oil rich Norway is a world leader in electric vehicle use, thanks to government incentives.

Copyright 2025 NPR

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.