This article analyses the Norwegian electric vehicle transition from a socio-technical perspective, shedding light on the emergence of one of the most important EV markets globally. The Norwegian strategy to promote this transition is often understood as a set of targeted policies to create EV demand. Here, we illustrate how visions and incentives for a Norwegian EV transition have emerged over a period of 40 years, highlighting how many of the incentives were actually introduced as mechanisms to stimulate the creation of a Norwegian EV industry niche. Conceptually, we contribute to understandings of the complex geographies of niche creation through discussions of how local policies can have trans-local and global effects. Further, we identify dynamics we describe as temporal echoes, which illustrate how visions, strategies or policies introduced at a specific point in time to serve a particular purpose might unexpectedly re-appear later, transformed, to serve different purposes.

本文从社会技术角度分析了挪威的电动汽车转型，阐明了全球最重要的电动汽车市场之一的兴起。挪威促进这种过渡的策略通常被理解为一组旨在产生电动汽车需求的有针对性的政策。在这里，我们说明了40年来挪威电动汽车转型的愿景和激励措施是如何出现的，强调了实际上引入了多少激励措施作为刺激挪威电动汽车行业利基的机制。从概念上讲，我们通过讨论地方政策如何具有跨地域和全球影响力，有助于对生态位创造的复杂地理环境的理解。此外，我们还确定了描述为时间回声的动力学，这些动力学说明了视觉，