According to the report, Norway has 754,303 registered electric vehicles (26.6% of the total 2.8 million registered passenger cars). Of these, the number of gasoline cars is 753,905, 398 cars lower than electric cars.
In addition, the number of diesel vehicles was 999,715, plug-in hybrids were about 210,000 and hybrids were about 156,000. OFV also informed that in August 2024, 94.3% of all vehicles sold in Norway were electric vehicles, of which Tesla's Model Y was the best-seller.
The OFV director said that having more electric cars than gasoline cars is a "historic milestone" for Norway, something that few people expected 10 years ago. The electrification process in Norway is still going at a fast pace, helping Norway gradually become the first country where the number of electric cars accounts for a large proportion of the total number of cars on the road. OFV predicts that the number of electric cars will exceed the number of diesel cars by 2026.
Norway’s rapid adoption of electric vehicles is partly due to government tax incentives. According to the Washington Post, Norway has a policy of subsidizing tax breaks for electric vehicle purchases from its thriving oil and gas companies.
However, according to statistics from The Guardian, electric car sales in other European countries are still falling. In many regions, electric cars only account for 12.3% of new cars sold.
