Norway’s electric car parc now outnumbers its pure petrol car fleet
For the first time ever there are more electric cars than pure petrol cars in Norway’s passenger-car fleet.
Of the 2.8-million registered passenger cars in the Nordic country, there are 754 303 electric cars (as of 16 September) and 753 905 petrol cars, this according to figures from Norway’s Road Traffic Information Council (OFV).
At present, nine out of ten new cars sold in Norway are electric vehicles (EVs).
Norway is making rapid strides towards becoming the first country in the world with a passenger-car fleet dominated by electric cars, says OFV director Øyvind Solberg Thorsen.
He notes, however, that there are still one-million registered passenger cars with diesel engines in Norway.
This number continues to fall, however.
“The pace we are seeing in the replacement of the passenger-car fleet, now may indicate that in 2026 we will also have more electric cars than diesel cars.”
In addition to pure petrol cars, there are just under 210 000 plug-in hybrids and around 156 000 hybrids in Norway’s passenger-car fleet.
During the last 20 years, more than one-million petrol cars have disappeared from the Norwegian car fleet, and have largely been replaced by electric cars.
Twenty years ago, in September 2004, there were more than 1.6-million petrol cars and around 230 000 diesel cars in Norway, and only around 1 000 electric cars.
The Nordic country of 5.5-million people aims to become the first nation to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars – by 2025.
The BBC reports that the sales of EVs in Norway have been boosted by tax breaks and other incentives, ironically funded in a large part from the money Norway makes out of oil and gas.
The country has a sovereign wealth fund worth more than $1.7-trillion built up from the proceeds of its oilfields.
The growth in electric car sales in Norway comes as EV sales-growth has started to stall in most of Europe, as well as in some other countries around the globe.
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