In Norway, the development of electromobility is progressing faster than in any other country in the world. A good 42 percent of all new cars registered there in 2019 were purely electric cars, the automobile association OFV has now announced. Overall, a good 60,000 electric cars were newly registered in Norway last year – and almost every third of them was a Tesla, according to OFV.
Electric cars are generously subsidized in Norway, while high taxes have to be paid for cars with internal combustion engines depending on weight and CO2 emissions. In addition, the country is wealthy (above all because of its extensive oil and gas reserves). Both together led to the Electrical trend started much earlier there came as elsewhere and has been buzzing ever since. For the new year 2020, the association therefore expects electric cars to make up more than half of the new registrations.
42.4% of all new cars sold in Norway in 2019 was EVs. The future is electric and the future is now. #Tesla Model 3 most sold car and 7 of the other top 10 were also EVs. pic.twitter.com/j7mOt6R39t
– Thomas Nilsen (@NilsenThomas) January 3, 2020
The interest in electric cars in Norway is so great that Tesla almost became the most important car company there in 2019: Tesla sold a total of 18,789 Model 3, Model S and Model X in Norway and thus had a share of the total car market of 13.2 Percent. With 151 more registrations and a 13.3 percent market share just ahead, only Volkswagen was left. In the last month of 2019 alone, Tesla even overtook VW – with 1,398 cars sold, the purely electric car manufacturer became the market leader among all newly registered cars in the country.
An even clearer lead from Tesla can be seen in the individual models: Sales of the Model 3 did not come close to any other – electric or conventional – car in December or in 2019 as a whole. With 15,683 newly registered Model 3, Tesla had a model market share of 11.0 percent throughout 2019, well ahead of the second-placed VW Golf with 7 percent.
According to a media report, the OFV expects the proportion of electric cars in the country to increase to 55-60 percent in 2020. Some car buyers may have held back in 2019 because it will be one from 2020 wider choice of models with long ranges and at affordable prices.
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