In November, the market share of electric models in Norway exceeded 90 percent

November 2024 has witnessed an unprecedented boom in electric vehicles on the Norwegian market. 10,940 vehicles with this type of propulsion were registered in this Nordic country last month, accounting for 93.6 percent of total registrations. This figure is, moreover, very similar to the one recorded a month earlier, when 10,862 electric vehicles were registered, and significantly higher than in November 2023, when registrations of this type of vehicle reached 8,442 units.

There is, therefore, a clear upward trend in electric vehicle registrations in Norway, where buying a combustion-engine vehicle is now practically the exception.

These figures recorded in November come in a context in which a total of 11,689 vehicles were registered in the country, an increase of 13 percent over the same month of the previous year. Of those 11,689 vehicles, only 749 were not pure electric and 154 were plug-in hybrids, so if we add pure electric vehicles to the latter, we can conclude that 94.9 percent of registrations corresponded to vehicles with charging capability.

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In relation to these data, Øyvind Solberg Thorsen, director of the Road Information Authority (OFV), has acknowledged Norway’s leading position in the adoption of electric vehicles. Nevertheless, this has not prevented him from stressing the need to maintain policies supporting electric mobility in the country, without reducing investment, with the aim of ensuring that all new car and van registrations correspond to zero-emission models by 2025.

Additionally, Thorsen has highlighted that for the vast majority of Norwegians the electric car is the right choice, with only a few specific use cases where other alternatives may be appropriate due to geographic or climatic conditions or special needs.

As regards combustion-engine vehicles, in November only 67 petrol cars were registered in this Nordic country -with a market share of 0.6 percent-, 248 diesel -2.1 percent- and 280 non-plug-in hybrids -2.4 percent-. These figures show a clear downward trend compared with previous years in the adoption of this type of vehicle by Norwegian drivers.

Finally, it should be noted that with 1,491 new registrations the Tesla Model Y was the most successful electric model, followed by the Model 3 with 764. The Tesla Model Y alone therefore almost doubled the number of registrations of all internal combustion and combined hybrid vehicles. The third best-selling electric model was the Volkswagen ID.4 with 755 units, which also individually outsold all combustion-engine vehicles.