83.7% Of Automobiles Bought In Norway In January 2022 Had been EVs −

The Norway auto market in January 2022 noticed extra EV gross sales and fewer gasoline automobile, diesel automobile, and hybrid EV gross sales but once more, OFV reported in its current evaluation of Norwegian January automobile gross sales. CleanTechnica additionally printed a report and authentic charts on these outcomes.

In complete, there have been 7,957 new passenger vehicles registered in Norway. Though that is 2,344 fewer than January 2021, the bottom registration complete for January was again in 2009. Additionally take into accout the primary quarter of the 12 months is often the weakest by way of gross sales.

What’s most notable is that out of the 7,957 new passenger automobile gross sales, 6,660 of these had been zero-emissions automobiles. This marked a 21.9% enhance in contrast with January 2021. There have been a complete of 1,495 new vans, with 371 being new zero-emission vans in each Courses 1 and a pair of.

🇳🇴 Plug-in hybrid share plummeted from 27.9% in 1/21 to solely 6.8% in 1/22 after 🇳🇴 elevated PHEV taxes in Jan. to higher replicate PHEV emissions

PHEV share may get better some later within the 12 months however their days are numbered with market shortly approaching 100% full #EVs pic.twitter.com/LUCONv8as9

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In complete, there have been solely 175 gasoline automobile gross sales in Norway in January, 212 diesel engine automobile gross sales, 910 hybrid gross sales, and 6,660 battery-electric car gross sales. OFV (Highway Site visitors Info Council) reported that in January, 19 of the highest 20 new automobile gross sales had been electrical. The article additionally touched upon the aforementioned lower of complete gross sales in January 2022 as in contrast with January 2021, noting that electrical vehicles had been the exception on this case.

The article additionally famous that of all new passenger vehicles to this point in 2022, 6.8% are rechargeable hybrids. The 12 months continues to be younger and that quantity may develop, however it could not develop by a lot if BEVs proceed to develop.

Øyvind Solberg Thorsen of OFV identified that the one car within the prime 20 that isn’t an electrical automobile is the Toyota RAV4. OFV additionally famous that new automobile registrations are persevering with to replicate how Norway is totally different from the remainder of the world within the context of electrical vehicles. Though extra international locations are having a rise in EV gross sales, solely Norway can level to such a model and mannequin distribution within the prime 20 in a month. Thorsen added that the six best-selling automobiles didn’t exist in Norway this time final 12 months.

This reveals that Norwegian new automobile consumers are shopping for the very newest in a similar way as many do with cellphones. He added that the way in which we purchase a brand new automobile is about to vary radically because of with the ability to order and store on-line earlier than a brand new automobile is picked up at a dealership. Thorsen famous that many individuals don’t check drive the brand new automobile as they used to.