Norway has reached another goal in electromobility. Two of the three newly sold vehicles in 2021 run on electricity. This share should increase to 75 to 80 percent this year, experts estimate.
Sales of new vehicles in Norway increased by 25 percent last year to more than 176,000 cars. Of these, as many as 65 percent (almost two-thirds) were pure electric cars. Two years ago, this share was only 54 percent. It is estimated that the trend will continue in 2022, when four out of five new cars could be electrically powered.
In 2021, the American carmaker Tesla accounted for the largest share of newly sold vehicles (not only electric ones) in Norway, at 11.6 percent. It surpassed the vehicles of the German Volkswagen Group by exactly two percentage points. Last year’s best-selling vehicle in Norway was the Tesla Model 3 in front of the Japanese RAV4 hybrid model from the Japanese carmaker Toyota.
Norway is one of the countries most supportive of electric vehicles. The government offers relatively significant tax breaks to consumers who purchase electric cars, which leads to a drop in electric car prices to a level comparable to conventional cars.