As Vezess wrote yesterday, the Norwegian Transport Information Council (OFV) reports that 54.3 per cent of new cars sold in the calendar year 2020 were purely electric (battery) in Norway. This is a new world record and an amazing achievement in light of the fact that 10 years ago the rate was only 1%. 141,412 new cars were sold in the country, of which 76,789 were purely electric.
It is clear that while 10 years ago Norway, where fossil fuels are still terribly expensive to this day, has preferred diesel cars measurably to the French and Italian markets: today their share has fallen to 9 per cent. Compared to this, the specific decline of petrol-powered models is much smaller, although it is striking that their stock has halved in a single year.
As for full hybrids, after some growth, they fell back to the level of five years ago. Plug-in hybrids, which together with purely electric cars account for three-quarters of sales, are all the more spinning!
Incidentally, Norway intends to ban the sale of vehicles equipped with internal combustion engines as early as 2025 and, to this end, supports the purchase of battery-powered electric cars with significant tax breaks. Incidentally, sales accelerated at the end of the year: in December 2020, two out of every three cars sold were electric!
Sales were driven by Audi, with e-tron pushing the Tesla Model 3 behind.
The market share of electric cars is expected to reach 65 percent by the end of 2021.
(Source: vezess.hu / photo: pexels.com)