About six years ago, hybrid sales really began to decline in Norway. The market share for newly registered hybrid cars increased from 6.9 per cent of total sales in 2013, to 12.4 per cent in 2015. In 2016, the number of registrations increased to 24.5 per cent, an improvement of 103 per cent from 2015, and it continued to increase to 31.3 percent in 2017.
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The arrow then began to point downwards after the popularity of electric cars went up, and new car sales of hybrids amounted to 29 percent in 2018 and 25.9 percent in 2019.
As of 1 March 2020, the total car fleet in Norway consisted of 8.5 per cent rechargeable and non-rechargeable hybrids, while 9.7 per cent of the cars were completely electric, according to figures from the Road Traffic Information Council (OFV).
The latest registration figures from the end of May show that 3,221 new hybrid cars were registered, an increase of 58.7 per cent from the same period last year. In the same period, 8,498 zero-emission cars were registered, an increase of 149.1 per cent from May last year.
Zero-emission cars are taking an ever-increasing share of the new car market, so do hybrids have a future or is it only temporary? The guys are trying to answer that in this week’s “Mile after mile – a podcast about cars”.
– We are definitely not done with rechargeable hybrids, but it is the future, asks Finansavisen’s Motor journalist and co-host of Mil after mil, Håkon Sæbø.
– Rechargeable hybrids can be compared to a mini disk, ie a bridge between CD and streaming. A little past and a little future. It must at least be a little more than 40-50 kilometers with super heavy batteries and little luggage space, answers car expert and podcast host Marius Mørch Larsen.
– For the time being, I can not be dazzled by those cars, adds Mørch Larsen.
Sæbø says that he has managed to drive the diesel hybrid Mercedes-Benz GLE350d 4-matic 100 kilometers on clean power, but adds that it is hot now and that the batteries are not getting really cold.
– If you are more concerned with the practical, then the hybrid car actually works well, says Sæbø.
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