German Volkswagen, the second largest car manufacturer in Norway, will stop selling new gasoline and diesel cars in this Scandinavian country as of 2024, according to what its commercial agent announced on Friday.
“The last Golf will be ordered at the end of the year as a farewell to fossil fuel cars,” Ulf Tore Hickneby, director of the Norwegian Moller Group, said in a statement.
He added: “In many ways, this will represent the end of an era, but also the beginning of a new, more important era in which we become more part of the solution, not the problem.”
Although Norway is one of the largest fuel producing countries, Norway has set itself an ambitious goal of selling only zero-emission cars, that is, mainly electric cars, starting in 2025, that is, ten years before the date set by the European Union for this purpose.
Electric cars
So far, electric cars represent more than 80% of new registrations (83.4% during the first nine months of this year), according to the Road Traffic Information Council.
Volkswagen, whose market share in Norway has been 12.32% since January, behind the American company Tesla (21.4%), the leader in electric cars, will focus from now on on its electric cars of the “AD” category.
In September, the ID.4 SUV was the second best-selling model in the country after the Tesla Model Y.
The Swedish company Volvo, a subsidiary of the Chinese Geely Group, stopped marketing its diesel cars in Norway on June 1. (AFP)
2023-10-20 16:04:47
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