Now it just happened. We have rounded up a share of twenty percent electric cars in the Norwegian car fleet.
Do you think that is a lot? Yes, things have gone fast in recent years. Do you think it is small? Yes, then it is because the news is often about electric cars dominating new car sales , and then it is easy to believe that we have come further with the total Norwegian car fleet.
Norway is far ahead
It was not long ago that Norway celebrated a ten percent electric car share of all registered passenger cars. It happened in March 2020. It took just under three years to go from 10 to 20 percent.
The development from 0 to 10 per cent was much slower. It took almost 10 years.
– It is a fascinating adventure that we are part of here in Norway, says Christina Bu, secretary general of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association. The snowball has rolled faster and faster, and more and more great electric car models are rolling out on Norwegian roads.
Now the general secretary of the Electric Vehicle Association is excited about how long it will take until 30 percent of the car fleet is electric:
– The target that the Storting has adopted is emission-free new car sales in 2025, and if we continue to only sell electric cars, the proportion of electric cars on the road will also increase rapidly. The transition from polluting cars to electric cars is crucial to cutting greenhouse gas emissions from road traffic.
The Electric Vehicle Association estimates that it will take just under two years before we reach 30 per cent electric cars in the car fleet.
We must include the whole country
Electric cars were a metropolitan phenomenon for a long time , and with long-term high electric car sales, cities such as Bergen and Oslo have achieved a large proportion of electric cars on the road . In Oslo, the proportion is 33.2 per cent and the old county of Hordaland has achieved 29.3 per cent .
- The new trend in recent years is the good development in the district ‘s counties, which is due to the fact that the new electric cars have improved, gained a longer range and that the charging network has been expanded .
Therefore, the share of electric cars in new car sales is now over fifty percent in all counties. Nevertheless, Christina Bu reminds us that the positive trend among new cars takes time to propagate in the stock. Despite the fact that 1 in 2 new cars in Finnmark are now electric cars, electric cars make up only 4.7 per cent of the total car fleet.
New electric car taxes, loss of mileage discounts and expensive time may slow down development
The state budget for electric cars in 2023 is not pleasant reading . All electric cars are getting more expensive , and it is becoming less profitable to get an electric car as a company car. Now it is exciting to follow the development further.
- It is completely understandable if more people choose to drive their diesel car a little longer than planned – both because of price increases , high interest rates and the introduction of taxes on electric cars . Nevertheless, we hope and believe that most people understand that it is an electric car that applies , if you are going to change your car, says Christina Bu. She reminds us that every time a fossil fuel car is replaced by an electric car, around two tonnes of CO2 emissions are cut a year.