Norway’s new EV record
Jeremy Wells and Meridian Energy have some work to do.
Electric vehicle sales have set a new record in Norway, with 45% of new cars there being all-electric and 60% plug-in.
September registration figures show 10,620 new passenger cars were registered in Norway last month.
Average carbon dioxide emissions of new cars registered are now at a record low of 55g per km – 16g per km lower than in September 2017.
“Such a large increase in electric cars caused a record-low CO2 emissions of 55g/km,” Road Traffic Advisory Board director Øyvind Solberg Thorsen says.
“Although we in Norway are accustomed to average CO2 emissions falling from month-to-month, this is the lowest level we have ever measured.”
Diesel car sales are down, but all-electric vehicles sales also appear to be getting market shares from plug-in hybrids, Electrek reports.
Tesla contributed hugely to EV deployment in Norway last month with just over 2000 new registrations.
It delivered about 2300 cars in the country during the third quarter and over 2000 of them were delivered in the last month.
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