In new car sales, electric cars have long dominated in Norway. But for the first time, electric cars have now surpassed petrol cars when counting all cars registered for traffic on Norwegian roads.
Out of 2.8 million registered private cars in Norway, there are currently 754,303 electric cars, while the number of petrol cars amounts to 753,905 units, according to statistics from the Norwegian road authority OFV.
This is historic. A milestone, says OFV director Øyvind Solberg Thorse.
However, the most common car type in Norway is still diesel-powered cars, which number around one million.
But with the pace we're seeing in the transformation of the private car fleet now, we can likely have more electric cars than petrol cars by 2026, says Solberg Thorse.
