Norway it is one of the markets where electric cars stand spreading more rapidly. As known for some time, the country’s goal is to ban the sales of new endotherms as early as 2025. However, this deadline could be almost “useless” as the market is naturally and very quickly moving towards battery-only models. According to the local press, in fact, given the evolution of the market over the last 4 years, as early as 2022 we could reach the “end” or almost the sales of cars equipped with a combustion engine (only petrol and diesel, not hybrids).
In the first eight months of 2017, petrol and diesel cars accounted for more than 25%, each of a total of 102,873 new registrations. In the first eight months of 2021, petrol and diesel cars accounted for 4.93% and 4.73% respectively of a total of 110,864 new registrations.
Given the trend also told in a graph that we report, if there are no changes, by the middle of 2022 the sales of petrol and diesel models can be counted with the dropper.
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It is not possible to fully retire these cars because according to what is said, there are still some market segments, however small, that still do not have an adequate electric alternative. If you think ai pickup whose battery-powered models are just starting now a reach the first buyers. Furthermore, there is always someone who wants to buy an endothermic model and importers still continue to find some customers even if less and less easily.
The data, however, are very clear and show the trend of the Norwegian auto market. In August 2021, for example, the share of electric was 71.9% and that of hybrids and plug-ins 20.4%. Overall, therefore, the electrified ones have exceeded 92% of the market.
Perhaps next year we will not really get to permanently retire petrol and diesel cars but we will get there very close and in a natural way, long before the most optimistic forecasts. Due to the rapid growth of the electric market, many manufacturers choose this country to launch their new battery-powered cars. Nissan, for example, kicked off in Europe under the orders of the new Ariya starting right from here.
Furthermore, it cannot be forgotten that the Chinese manufacturers, like NIO, have chosen Norway as the first market for their expansion plans for the Old Continent.
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