Nordic EV Summit in April 2025 celebrates Norway’s EV-only goal

The eighth annual Nordic EV Summit in Oslo on April 9 and 10, 2025, celebrates Norway’s 2025 EV-only goal set in 2017.

The party will be at the Ekeberg Restaurant overlooking Oslo, and the Norwegian fairy tale of electric mobility will be at the centre, says Norwegian EV Association secretary general Christina Bu.

She says most people thought the goal set in 2017 “was utter madness and not achievable” but now 94% of Norway’s new car sales are fully electric.

“At the conference we will take stock and ask how on earth did we do it, and how fast can the rest of the world follow?”

EVs now outnumber petrol models for the first time in Norway.

Of the 2.8 million private cars registered in Norway, 754,303 are all-electric, compared to 753,905 using petrol, the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) says.

Diesel models number just under one million, but their sales are falling sharply, says the OFV.

“The electrification of the fleet of passenger cars is going quickly, and Norway is thereby rapidly moving towards becoming the first country in the world with a passenger car fleet dominated by electric cars,” says OFV director Oyvind Solberg Thorsen.

He believes that by 2026 Norway will even have more electric than diesel cars.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says EVs comprised 3.2% of the global car fleet in 2023 – 4.1% in France, 7.6% in China, 18% in Iceland – the data including plug-in hybrid (PHEV) cars.

EVs comprised 94.3% of new car registrations in August in Norway, aided by sales of the Tesla Model Y, says AFP.

The Norwegian EV Association is sure to be watching the 2025 Norwegian budget due before parliament on October 7, particularly to see if anything changes around EV tax rebates and other incentives.

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