Almost a Third of New Cars Sold In Norway Last Year Were Pure Electric (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Almost a third of new cars sold in Norway last year were pure electric, a new world record as the country strives to end sales of fossil-fueled vehicles by 2025. In a bid to cut carbon emissions and air pollution, Norway exempts battery-driven cars from most taxes and offers benefits such as free parking and charging points to hasten a shift from diesel and petrol engines. The independent Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Wednesday that electric cars rose to 31.2 percent of all sales last year, from 20.8 percent in 2017 and just 5.5 percent in 2013, while sales of petrol and diesel cars plunged. The sales figures consolidate Norway's global lead in electric car sales per capita, part of an attempt by Western Europe's biggest producer of oil and gas to transform to a greener economy. For comparison, electric cars had a 2.2 percent share in China in 2017 and 1.2 percent in the United States, according to IEA data.

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People in Norway do not stay just in Norway...

[SuperKendall]

Norway generates about 90% of it's electrical power via Hydro.

Irrelevant as people people generally do not think (or care) about where power comes from.

That, and the fact the country could fit into Texas twice

That's a really limited view of how people in Europe live. Sure they country they live in may be tiny, but that just means you can drive to a lot more countries. Don't you think that a lot of people in Norway drive to at least Sweden and Denmark?

Also, Norway is a lot bigger than you think.

you have the perfect place for electric cars.

Certainly not in terms of climate.

Re:The best pushers are not users

[amorsen]

The most popular car sold in Norway last year was the Leaf, not the iPace.

Correcting your trolling is tedious, but someone has to do it.

Re:Reasons

[amorsen]

The fastest selling EV in Norway is the Leaf.

Re:Reasons

[swillden]

The reason is tax-breaks, no tolls, free parking, no import/purchase tax, no road tax, driving in bus lanes. Saving the environment isn't one of those reasons.

Saving the environment is the reason for the tax breaks, etc.

The fastest selling EV there is the Jaguar iPace.

Trump, is that you?

From TFA:

Nissan’s upgraded Leaf electric car was the top-selling car in Norway last year, while other top-selling cars overall ranged from small BMWs and Volkswagens (VOWG_p.DE) to full-size sedans and electric sport utility vehicles by Tesla.

I can't find whole-year figures that include December, but up through November the Jaguar iPace was #20. The top three were the Leaf, the VW e-Golf and the BMW i3.