Virtually every car in Norway comes with an extra set of snow tires. For a $20 donation, groups (Kiwanis, Lions, etc.) provide a service to change them out every Fall and Spring. Quite handy if you don’t have time .
My daughter spent some time in Australia this fall and some people were commenting that they heard there were special kind of tires for driving in snow and asked her about it. She and a girl from Germany were laughing and told them *Yes, it’s true*.
The girl from Germany told her that snow tires are mandatory for the winter there.