Norway is going Great Guns on EV
Maybe I'm late to this statistic, but wow:
96.4 per cent of all new cars registered in Norway in September were purely electric. It seems Norway's goal of 100 per cent EV registrations by 2025 is within reach.
And if you're thinking, well, that's just one month, here you go:
Norway has a stated goal of making all new cars electric from 1 Jan 2025, and it would seem they are well on track.
Even more impressive is the fact that as of 2022, 25% of all cars on the road (not just new cars sold) were plug-in electric vehicles.
The incentive mix that has enabled this is partly monetary, of course, including exemption from non-recurring vehicle fees, and a cut in the taxes applicable when you buy a new vehicle. Non-monetary incentives were also in play until recently, including free parking and the use of public transport lanes - although some of these have been cut in recent times.
Here's a list of the EV incentives that were/are in place:
And boy did some of these non-monetary incentives help! Here's one example:
The text is in Norwegian, yes, but surely it is a fairly self-explanatory story - the ability to use public transport lanes because you're in an EV meant you could do the same journey in only 19 minutes, compared to 51 when driving an internal combustion engine equipped vehicle.
But the bottomline is that 97% is a very, very impressive number, and it does look as if Norway will easily meet their goal of having all new vehicles be EV's, come 2025. Truly fascinating!