Norway’s electric car sales set new world record

Electrical automotive gross sales in Norway took a 94-percent share of the market in August—a brand new world document—statistics confirmed Monday, as gross sales in the remainder of Europe stagnate.

Boosted by the Tesla Mannequin Y, which accounted for 18.8 p.c of gross sales, and to a lesser extent Hyundai’s Kona and Nissan’s Leaf, electric vehicles made up 94.3 p.c of recent automotive registrations, the Norwegian Street Federation (OFV) mentioned.

Norwegians purchased 10,480 new EVs in August, bringing the whole to 68,435 for the reason that begin of the 12 months.

Elsewhere in Europe excessive costs and inadequate infrastructure have hampered gross sales of EVs, whereas gross sales of hybrid fashions, which mix fossil gas engines with electrical batteries, have elevated.

The Scandinavian nation, a significant oil and gasoline producer, has set a goal to promote solely zero-emission autos by 2025, 10 years forward of the EU aim.

The nation presents beneficiant tax advantages which make electrical fashions competitively priced.

“No country in the world comes close to Norway in the electric car race,” OFV director Oyvind Solberg Thorsen mentioned in an announcement.

“If this trend continues, we will soon be on our way to achieving our goal of 100 percent zero-emission cars by 2025,” he mentioned.

By comparability, electric cars represented 12.1 p.c of recent automotive gross sales within the EU in July, behind petrol vehicles at 33.4 p.c, full hybrids at 32 p.c and diesel vehicles at 12.6 p.c, in line with the European Vehicle Producers Affiliation.

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