Norway now has more electric cars on its roads than petrol-powered vehicles, according to the latest report presented this Tuesday by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration.
The report tallies 754,303 fully electric private vehicles, compared to 753,905 petrol-powered cars, out of a total of 2.5 million vehicles in the local car fleet.
The Nordic country aims to become the first in the world to end the sale of combustion engine cars by 2025, ten years ahead of the European target, in a context of expanding electric mobility thanks to tax exemptions approved by the Oslo government.
However, the industry warns that diesel car sales remain the most numerous in the country, although their decline has accelerated in recent months.
This comes at a time when nine out of ten new cars registered in the country during the first half of 2024 were electric, according to the local automotive sector.
Norway, which has a sovereign wealth fund valued at over 1.7 trillion euros, generated from decades of profits from its oil fields, acknowledges that this financial cushion has enabled the government to offer incentives to drivers to opt for electric cars, including the exemption from vehicle sales tax.
