That was the goal of 90 percent. But now the Norwegian state is starting a new year in which new gasoline and diesel cars will still be sold in the country.
Norway has insisted that electric cars are the only way to go. But the government did not quite reach the 90 percent share of new electric cars by 2024.
Instead, 88.9 percent of all new registrations were electric cars. However, the dream of 100 percent electric by 2025 seems out of reach.
The Danish Road Traffic Information Council (OFV) published figures on Thursday showing that total sales of new cars ended at 128,691 cars in 2024. This is an increase of 1.4 percent compared to the previous year.
The share of electric cars in new car sales has increased sharply since 2010, when electric cars accounted for just 0.3 percent of sales.
The exception is a decrease in 2016. However, the authorities in Norway still have the goal that there will be no new diesel or gasoline cars on the country's roads by 2025.
– It sends a clear message to the government that it is absolutely essential to maintain incentives that provide benefits for the purchase of electric cars if the government and the Storting are to achieve the goal they have set themselves, OFV Director Øyvind Solberg Thorsen.
The director also had to retract figures about the dominance of electric cars in the country that his own organization had published in 2024. Read more about it here .
However, there are factors that could affect the sales of electric cars in 2025. Firstly, sales of hybrids are expected to fall sharply. This is partly due to significantly higher taxes on plug-in hybrids and partly because Toyota is expected to launch a larger range of electric cars.
Secondly, sales of diesel cars may decline as Skoda and Volkswagen, which have over 60 percent of the diesel market, will bring more electric cars to Norway.
However, it is uncertain whether these factors will be enough to achieve the goal of 100 percent electric cars by 2025. Gasoline cars still account for a small share of 0.8 of total car sales, while diesel cars still account for 2.3 percent of the market.
Although Norway will not reach its goal of 100 percent electric vehicles by 2025, the country's efforts to promote electric vehicles are remarkable. The high share of electric vehicles on Norwegian roads is proof that electric vehicles can be a real alternative to gasoline and diesel cars.
