Electric cars outsell ICE ones in Norway for the first time

That’s what March statistics shows


For the long time Norway is the world’s leader in EV adoption pace. The share of plug-in cars grows steadily. However, March 2019 brought some historical news for Norway and the whole world - there were more new electric vehicles registrations last month in Norway, than ICE cars.

In total, 58,4% of all new cars delivered in Norway this March were electric. Top 5 market leaders are Tesla Model 3, VW e-Golf, BMW i3, Nissan Leaf and Audi e-tron quattro.

As for the Q1 2019 results, EVs also show strong position, conquering 48,4% of the market. Moreover, a part of new electric cars were in transit for their owners in Norway on the date of closing the statistics - for instance, Tesla and Audi models.

Noticeable, that Norway came to such impressive result within quite short period of time - there were slightly more than 10,000 electric cars in the country just 5 years ago. In order to make electric vehicles more popular, Norwegian government waived vehicle import duties, as well as registration and sales taxes for buyers of electric cars; they also have the permission to drive on bus lanes and don’t pay road tolls.