The Model Y set a record for highest ever monthly car registrations.
Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Some countries are further ahead in the electric-vehicle transition than others. Norwegian car sales in March were dominated by EVs and
Tesla
was the standout brand.
Of a total 19,366 new passenger cars registered in Norway in March, 16,811 were electric cars, or 87%, according to the Norwegian Road Federation, or OFV. Registrations reflect sales.
Diesel and gasoline cars combined accounted for only 2.7% of new car registrations, the OFV said, in a statement on Monday seen by Barron’s and translated with Google tools.
Tesla
(ticker: TSLA) accounted for 7,902 of the monthly sales, or 41% of the total. Tesla’s Model Y alone accounted for 7,445 registrations, the highest ever monthly number for a car model in Norway.
“The sale of new clean diesel and gasoline cars is probably about to become history in Norway,” OFV Director Oyvind Solberg Thorsen said. Norway is aiming to have all new cars sold be zero-emissions vehicles–either battery-electric or hydrogen–by 2025.
Tesla’s success in Norway is being replicated elsewhere in Europe. Recent figures showed the electric-vehicle maker’s European Union sales grew faster than those of any other car manufacturer in February. Norway is not an EU member.
Write to Adam Clark at [email protected]
Read the full article here