Sales of new passenger cars in Norway fell by as much as 26.1 per cent in April from the same month last year, according to the Road Traffic Information Council (OFV). This gives an overall decline of 15.0 percent so far this year.
9,725 new cars were first registered last month, which gives a total so far in 2022 of 42,067 cars.
Of the total so far this year, electric cars account for 34,002 registrations, which gives a share of close to 81 percent. At the same time last year, the electric car share was 53 percent, according to OFV.
The number of new petrol cars was 1,524, the number of new diesel cars was 1,322, while 1,891 hybrid cars and 3,320 plug-in hybrids have been registered. Eight of the newly registered cars run on hydrogen.
– Very many cars in order reserves
The Information Council highlights the war in Ukraine and the new corona outbreak in China as influencing factors for the development of new car sales.
«The situation with production challenges and delivery of new cars to waiting customers is still noticeable. At the same time, we know that there are very many cars in order reserves. As soon as a new boat load of cars arrives, the delivery rate increases and the arrows go up. There is still reason to believe that 2022 will also be a year of high new car sales “, says director Øyvind Solberg Thorsen in OFV.
The Volvo XC40 was the best-selling car model in April with 620 registrations, ahead of Skoda Enyaq with 485, Volkswagen ID.4 with 440 and BMW iX with 348 registrations.
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