Norway To Hit 100% Electric Vehicle Sales Early Next Year

Norway is on track to bid farewell to the sale of new petrol and diesel-powered cars by April 2022, according to new analysis released by the Norwegian Automobile Federation (NAF). From a report: According to monthly new car sales data released by Norway's Road Traffic Information Council (OVF), the last internal combustion engine vehicle is set to leave the dealership next April, almost three years ahead of the Norwegian government's 2025 stated target for the phasing out completely of sales of new petrol and diesel cars. Norway's equivalent of VFACTS tell an interesting story. In the first eight months of 2021, vehicles without any type of electrification -- battery electric vehicle, plug-in hybrid, hybrid -- made up less than 10 per cent of (9.66 per cent) new car sales. Out of a total of 110,864 new car registrations, petrol cars accounted for 4.93 per cent and diesel for just 4.73 per cent. That's down from 21 per cent from the previous year and more than 50 per cent as recently as 2017 where in the first eight months, petrol and diesel cars accounted for over 25 per cent each out of a total of 102,873 registrations.

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