Electric vehicles accounted for nearly 80 percent of new cars registered in Norway last year, a new world record.
Driven by the sales of Tesla Group cars, which topped the list of manufacturers with a 12.2 percent market share, 138,265 new electric cars were sold last year in the Scandinavian country, or 79.3 percent of all new passenger car sales, according to the Traffic Media Council.
Thus, Norway, a major producer of hydrocarbons and one of the most prominent countries in the world in terms of the spread of zero-emission cars, broke the record that it also set in 2021, 64.5 percent, according to the “French”.
Electric vehicles accounted for 8.6 percent of all new cars registered in the European Union in the first nine months of 2022.
In December alone, electric cars accounted for 82.8 per cent of sales in Norway, as Norwegian households rushed to acquire these vehicles before a tax increase came into effect.
Tesla’s Model Y was Norway’s best-selling car last year, accounting for one in ten new registered cars, ahead of Volkswagen’s ID.4 and Skoda’s Enyaq, both of which are also electric.
With more than 17,000 copies sold, the group owned by billionaire Elon Musk broke the domestic sales record, which had been held by the famous Volkswagen Beetle since 1969.
Norway aims for all its new cars to be zero-emissions, that is, working entirely on electricity or hydrogen, as of 2025, and it relies in particular to achieve this goal on an encouraging tax policy.