"The countryside used to lag behind, but that was then, not now," says Christina Bu of the industry organization Elbilforeningen.
Many of the 107 municipalities where the new-car market was fully electrified in 2025 are located in the north. In the two northernmost regions, Finnmark and Nordland, only electric cars were sold in 12 of 18 and 23 of 41 municipalities, respectively.
The most electric-car skeptics appear to be in the small municipality of Flekkefjord in southwestern Norway. But even there, over half of all new cars have no exhaust pipes, 53 percent to be exact.
Norway is at the forefront globally in the transition to emission-free transport, and its stated goal is for all new vehicles to be electric.
