The share of new registrations of e-cars reached 54.3 percent this year thanks to government funding.
Norway is the first country in the world to have an electric car quota of over 50 percent. The so-called Information Council for Road Traffic in Oslo published the registration numbers for the past year on Tuesday: According to this, 54.3 percent of all newly registered cars had an electric or hybrid drive. In 2019 this share had reached 42.4 percent.
The four best-selling models were the Audi e-tron, the Model 3 from Tesla, the Volkswagen ID.3 and the Nissan Leaf – all with exclusively electric drive. The Volkswagen Golf in the hybrid version follows in fifth place.
Norway is considered a pioneering country in electromobility. Politicians are primarily responsible for the boom: E-cars are almost completely tax-exempt in Norway, so they can keep up with diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles in terms of costs.
The electricity required for the e-cars is generated almost exclusively with hydropower in the country. The aim is for only electric cars to be sold from 2025.
