As early as this year – precisely this autumn – Norway will reach the point where there are more electric cars than petrol cars in the country. However, the latter will not be banned anyway.
Already this year, electric cars are outstripping petrol cars in numbers. That is, at least in Norway.
This is predicted by the Upplysningsrådet för vägtrafik (OFV).
In a comment to Norwegian Motor, the organization's director Øyvind Solberg Thorsen says that he expects the balance to tip to September.
This must be seen in the context of the fact that in Norway, just over 100,000 cars are scrapped per year. Here, petrol cars account for 44.5 per cent and electric cars for just 4.45 per cent of scrappings.
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However, when measured in numbers, the diesel car is still the most popular car in all of Norway. And it won't be until September that the electric car pushes the diesel car out.
Øyvind Solberg Thorsen expects this to take several years. There are just over one million diesel cars in Norway, while there are approximately 730,000 electric cars in the country.
Something suggests, however, that the Norwegians are not quite as obsessed with electric cars as they used to be. The month of May this year made amends for the first time in a very long time for a fall in sales of electric cars. And in the same month, the government revoked several advantages that electric cars otherwise had on the roads. Read more about it here.
It was otherwise the government's policy that diesel and petrol cars were completely banned from being imported into Norway as early as January 1, 2025. But recently, Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum has had to find the reverse gear on behalf of the government.
– Remember that it is a goal. Some have taken it quite literally that it must be a 100 percent ban. Fossil cars will also be sold next year, says the finance minister in a comment to Nettavisen.
For that announcement, the Norwegian answer to FDM, NAF, could then also say that it is now just as expensive to charge the electric car at a public charging station as it is to fill up with diesel. Read more about it here .
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