Officially, Norway plans to ban the new sales of non-electric new passenger cars from 2025. However, if the current trend continues, the purely fuel-powered car will disappear from the Norwegian scene as early as 2022.
Measures such as a total ban on the sale of cars with a combustion engine are of course intended to accelerate the transition to electric. In Norway, however, this measure seems unnecessary, because the transformation is going a lot faster than expected.
According to a message from motor.no, a publication of the Norwegian Automobile Federation (NAF), the EV will displace the traditionally powered car from the Norwegian sales rankings as early as April 2022. You read that right: in no more than seven months, every car sold in Norway may have some form of electric drive. Motor.no bases this on recent sales figures. For example, it notes that petrol and diesel cars still accounted for more than 25 percent of sales in 2017, while the share of petrol and diesel has already fallen in the first 8 months of this year to 4.93 and 4.73 respectively. per cent.
However, Motor.no also acknowledges that the approaching end of petrol and diesel cars does not mean that the EV will have the exclusive right from next year. For example, the medium states that for the time being there is still a small market for these types of cars, including in the form of small, affordable four-wheel drive units from Suzuki.
Perhaps more importantly, the figures do not seem to take into account the share of hybrids, or partially electrically powered cars. If we look at the share of the pure EV, it is striking that in 2019 they controlled almost half of the Norwegian market. In 2020 that was already more than half and in the most recent report on Norwegian car sales, that share was 70 percent. The growth of EV sales is therefore going fast, but reaching 100 percent in a good six months also seems ambitious. On the other hand, the purely fuel-driven car is disappearing quickly: in August only 7.8 percent fell into this category.
Since the very first revival of the EV, Norway has been working on incentives that even the Netherlands cannot match. Anyone who does not purchase an EV in this country deprives themselves of so many advantages that the fuel car is only a sensible solution in very specific cases.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl