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Electric Cars Now Outnumber Diesels Here

Norway set a goal back in 2017 to end fossil fuel car sales by 2025, and while many people thought the target was too optimistic and would get pushed back, the country stuck to its plan and basically achieved the impossible with 97.5 percent of all new cars sold in 2025 having a plug. The country registered 179,549 new passenger cars in 2025 including 172,232 fully electric vehicles and only 487 gasoline powered cars, 1,773 diesels, and 2,306 conventional hybrids, meaning just 1.3 percent of vehicles sold had no battery at all. December numbers were even more dramatic with 97.6 percent of new cars being all electric, and the remaining fossil vehicles mostly consisted of specialized vehicles like wheelchair accessible cars, police vehicles, first responder vehicles and a few hybrid models and sports cars. Tesla closed out the year as Norway’s top selling car brand with 19.1 percent of the market despite the company’s global sales troubles, and the Model Y remained the best selling model by a wide margin selling over three times as many units as the second place VW ID.4.

Even more importantly, electric vehicles now officially outnumber diesel cars on Norway’s roads as of early December 2025, making EVs the most common vehicle type in the country at 31.78 percent of the total fleet compared to 31.76 percent diesels and 23.9 percent gasoline cars. The milestone was reached partly due to a rush of buyers before incentives changed, as Norway declared victory on its 100 percent EV goal earlier in 2025 and reduced generous tax breaks for more expensive electric vehicles costing over 30,000 dollars. OFV director Geir Inge Stokke reminded everyone that two out of three passenger cars on the road still run on fossil fuels so work continues toward an emission free vehicle fleet, noting that fossil car holdouts might be the hardest to convince especially in remote regions like Finnmark where only 86 percent of new car sales were electric. The country proved that when you set a realistic goal, craft policy around it, and don’t change your mind every few years based on industry pressure, you can actually transform an entire nation’s transportation system in less than a decade.

Source: https://electrek.co/2026/01/02/norway-reaches-97-ev-sales-as-evs-now-outnumber-diesels-on-its-roads/

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