The short version is: non-electric cars are heavily taxed in Norway. Electric cars are exempt from this tax, so Teslas are not particularly expensive for Norwegians.<p>Norway taxes traditional cars on many attributes, such as engine size, engine power, CO2/NOX emission.<p>This results in a top model of a Chevrolet Camaro costing 1,500,000 NKR, while e.g. the neighbors in Sweden would pay around 300,000 NKR for the same car.<p>The cheapest Volksvagen Golf 2012 model costs about 226,000 NKR, or about $37,000