Norway Reached 96.9% Market Share For EVs In June (mobilityportal.eu)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/2341234/norway-reached-969-market-share-for-evs-in-june
- Source link: https://mobilityportal.eu/norway-96-9-market-share-evs/
> According to the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (OFV), 17,799 new electric cars were registered in Norway in June out of a total of 18,376 new registrations. In this context, electric vehicles (EVs) held a market share of 96.9%. Compared to June 2024 -- when EVs made up 80% of all new registrations -- this technology increased by 3,790 units. In addition, in May 2025, Norway recorded 4,415 new EV registrations.
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> Last month, only 577 new registrations were for vehicles without fully electric drive systems. Among these were 152 plug-in hybrids (an 83.7% drop compared to June 2024) and 223 other types of hybrids (an 89.1% decline). Over the year, hybrids lost market share, falling from 17% to 2%. Pure combustion engines also further reduced their market presence: 142 new diesel vehicles represented 0.8% of the market share, down from 2% a year earlier, and 57 new petrol vehicles made up 0.3% of the market, compared to 1% in June 2024.
"Several campaigns with 0% or very low interest rates on new car purchases significantly boosted sales. The first interest rate cut by Norges Bank helped ensure that many people bought their dream car," said Oyvind Solberg Thorsen, Director of OFV.
"It remained to be seen whether Tesla could maintain its strong position, and for how long."
[1] https://mobilityportal.eu/norway-96-9-market-share-evs/
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As if replicating Norway is somehow a bad idea, or that Norway is somehow a villain for exporting oil.
Funny how /. attracts the lowest quality trolls.
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If I remember correctly, Norway has the happiest people. Their GDP takes into account happiness. That seems good to me. America, on the other hand.......
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EV's seem the way to go to me in America. We should be a bunch of children. We are. Let us have a lot of little bumper cars where if we are stupid then no harm happens. Why this bullshit about big ICE cars?
There are cities around the world with a higher po (Score:2)
While this is great for Norway and EV promotion, never forget that there are cities across the world with higher population and some of them run on 2 stroke engines.
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Never forget that the portion of accumulated CO2 generated in those cities is a tiny 5, maybe 10% of it all.
Their two-stroke mopeds aren't the largest problem that needs to be solved.
My bet (Score:1)
My bet is that Norway stopping oil sales would have a better effect on "climate change" than reaching 100% domestic EV market share.
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If I remember correctly, Norway is selling their oil and building a wealth fund for their citizens. Texas is doing a similar thing. We are Solar and Wind dependent, and we lobby like hell for other suckers to take our Oil and Nat Gas.
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1. Norway isn't a big producer (2.2% of world);
2. its market share shrinks mechanically every time a big player decides to increase their production;
3. the production of the world has been on steady linear increase since the 1980s (+42% since 1982), dwarfing even more Norway every year;
4. Norway already made the decision to reduce their impact and cut by 41.8% their production since their 2001 peak.
Source: [1]https://ourworldindata.org/gra... [ourworldindata.org]
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-production-by-country?country=QAT~OMN~NOR~IRQ~ARE
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Yup, Norway is smart. They are selling their oil and nat gas to suckers.
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> Norway already made the decision to reduce their impact and cut by 41.8% their production since their 2001 peak.
This is a business decision to maximize revenue, not an effort to "minimize impact".
Their oil fields are hitting peak production and the oil and gas prices are set to increase in the foreseeable future.
It only makes sense for them to do delay output, as the return from selling it later would be higher than the alternative.
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> 1. Norway isn't a big producer (2.2% of world);
Just 5.5 million people are benefiting from selling 2.2% of the global oil. So .07% of the population is responsible for sending out 2.2% of the worlds oil. It's also 3% of the worlds natural gas supply. It's still going to be converted into CO2, so what's it matter.
Not a plan every nation can emulate. (Score:1, Troll)
Norway has, or maybe had, a 25% VAT on new vehicles but waived this for EVs to encourage adoption. This is a nation of under 6 million people, Minnesota has more people than Norway. This works for Norway because their vehicle demand is relatively tiny compared to the rest of the world, there's enough global EV production that demand created by this tax in Norway had no real impact on EV prices.
If the USA were to do something like this then demand for EVs would be such that prices would be driven up until
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Are you a person who thinks that a Tariff is a tax on another Country?
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> The PHEV will likely be the default option for more cars and light trucks as they offer all electric commutes without the high costs of a battery large enough to carry the vehicle for 250+ miles.
I think will likely only be true for the USA with its weird range requirements.
Elsewhere people no longer buy hybrids to save costs. With BEVs now reaching price parity in many countries on basic cars they are the way to save money. The people buying hybrids now are getting them because classic non-hybrid ICEV are becoming rare, not because they specifically want a hybrid.
Now people are getting used to reality of BEVs the FUD is having less effect and as people start seeing sticker prices on BEVs be
It'll never work (Score:3)
It'll never work. Norway is too cold. And no one wants EVs anyway. And what if the Norwegians need to haul industrial loads across Europe?
These Norwegians are confused. They don't know they're ruining everything by going electric. The ICE people told me.
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Everybody who knows BYD wants an EV.
I am a bus rider. (Score:2)
The next best thing I think is an EV. Down that ladder is a Uber person. Last is an ICE engine person. I laugh at the big bad person who drives an ICE thing, while I simply wait for someone else to drive me while I read and I pay less than $40 a month while a big bad ICE person seems to be paying thousands of dollars for what? their rights? their freedom? bullshit.
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> while a big bad ICE person seems to be paying thousands of dollars for what? their rights? their freedom?
Flexing on the poors.
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There's this bullshit lie again. Trolls are nothing if not ignorant copycats.
Smog is not tire particulate and EVs are only incrementally worse with tire wear, but better with brake pad wear. They sure are great at getting liars out to spread FUD though.
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Quite a bit better on gas too
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There does seem to be a correlation between big gas guzzling engines that moves thousands of tons from here to there, and people who call themselves Christians, who hold guns and hate the homeless. I see them every day.
Re:I am a bus rider. (Score:4, Interesting)
> The next best thing I think is an EV. Down that ladder is a Uber person. Last is an ICE engine person. I laugh at the big bad person who drives an ICE thing, while I simply wait for someone else to drive me while I read and I pay less than $40 a month while a big bad ICE person seems to be paying thousands of dollars for what? their rights? their freedom? bullshit.
My daily driver went from a Dodge Charger Hellcat (v8 6.2L supercharged ICE w/707hp) to Hyundai Ioniq 5N (EV w/640hp) that is faster , brakes faster, corners better, and literally beats the Hellcat in every driving metric on every track... by a lot.
It just doesn't sound like the Hellcat. Granted. Style. There's a visceral quality to the sound of a high-displacement engine. Granted.
But... I checked my bills. I'm paying an average of $36 CDN a month more on my electricity bills compared to prior to the change. I was spending nearly $300/mo on premium gas for the Hellcat.
It's really, really, really hard to ignore that I spent over $18,000 for fuel in six years in the Hellcat and I'm going to spend under $3,000 in the same time. For a faster, sportier, more agile car with more interior space, more utility, and has its own style.
Where I live, most of our electricity comes from nuclear and hydro-electric turbines at natural waterfalls... we were 91% renewable four years ago . My electricity is clean. My carbon footprint is nil. I don't regret the 9,000+ litres of gas the Hellcat burned. At the time it was the coolest monster car I could afford. But I absolutely, positively won't look back from the 5N.
Sure, sure, it'll cost me time and money if I randomly decide I need to drive across the planet but... the v8 rumble isn't worth it. Any of it.
EVs aren't for everyone and every use-case. Again, granted. But the cases where they aren't better are much more rare than the nay-sayers would have folks believe. If you can, do it. If you truly can't... okay, cool, understood... but maybe support the infrastructure expansion that'll get you there, not undermine it.
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The Hellcat might one day see the block at a classic car auction. The Hyundai not so much.
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honestly, my room mate has an amazing Mustang. Recently, he refused to drive it because it makes too much noise. My mind is spinning because of the disconnect. He actually wants to make it louder, and more powerful.
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> It just doesn't sound like the Hellcat.
Thank you for no longer being a sociopath!
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Quite the attitude.
Kudos...I guess.
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Seems like common sense to me.
Not really (Score:2)
There are some marginal gains in terms of climate change for a electric car but they are pretty marginal. Electric cars not only don't stop climate change but the false impression that buying one helps is making things much much worse.
And I know nobody here likes to hear it cuz it's a guaranteed way for me to get modded down but most of the pollution coming from cars is from their tires now. I mean no kidding we've had zero emissions cars for something like 25 years now.
But every time I go outside I
If not this then what? (Re:Not really) (Score:1)
If nuclear power and electric vehicles aren't the solutions we are looking for then what should we be looking for?
It is not helpful to tell us we are on the wrong path if you can't point us to the correct path. No solution is perfect so we must choose the least bad options. The IPCC and others will tell us that new nuclear power is lower cost than combined cycle natural gas, and certainly far lower in CO2 emissions. As much as people will bring up safety issues of nuclear power we have statistics that sh