Electric cars accounted for roughly two-thirds of new sales in Norway last year, a key milestone on the country’s way to ending the sale of gas-powered cars by 2025, Reuters reported.
Electric cars accounted for roughly two-thirds of new sales in Norway last year, a key milestone on the country’s way to ending the sale of gas-powered cars by 2025, Reuters reported.
“Norway is the country with the biggest openness to EVs, the biggest understanding of what it is to drive an EV, and the most welcoming for having an alternative,” Thomas Ingenlath, CEO of Volvo affiliate Polestar, told Reuters.
EVs have steadily accrued market share in Norway, going from 42 percent of new sales in 2019 to 54 percent in 2020 to 65 percent in 2021. Plug-in hybrids accounted for another 22 percent of sales last year, while non-plug-in hybrids made up just 6 percent. Only 8 percent of cars sold were gas or diesel powered.
Tesla was the top-selling brand in Norway in 2021, with 11.6 percent market share, followed by Volkswagen, with 9.6 percent. Tesla’s Model 3 was the top-selling all-electric car in Norway, while Volkswagen’s ID.4 came in second place.
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