Electric vehicles accounted for almost two-thirds of cars sold in Norway last year, and sales have increased by 48 percent thanks to tax breaks. In the first place there is the American company Tesla.
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Norway wants to be the first country in the world to stop selling cars with internal combustion engines, and it intends to stop offering them to customers from 2025.
In this Scandinavian country, electric cars are exempt from the tax that those interested in classic petrol or diesel cars must pay. Norway is a major oil producer.
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Last year, Tesla dominated 11.5 percent of the car market in Norway. It became the number one brand for the first year in a row. German Volkswagen finished behind Tesla with a market share of 9.4 percent.
The American carmaker announced on Sunday a record quarterly sales, which significantly exceeded the estimates of Wall Street analysts. The company increased production in China, partially able to cope with the global shortage of chips.
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Last year, the Tesla Model 3 became the most popular model of the year before the RAV4 hybrid from Toyota, Japan, the only car in the top ten with an internal combustion engine, and the ID.4 electric car from Volkswagen in third place.
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The year before, Norway became the first country in the world to sell more electric cars than petrol, diesel or hybrid cars. The share of electric cars sold at the time was 54.3 percent. Ten years earlier, it was still one percent.
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