The Incentives Stimulating Norway’s Electric Vehicle Success
Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:25:47 +0000
Published on January 28th, 2020 | by Jake Richardson
January 28th, 2020 by Jake Richardson
When it comes to electric vehicles, Norway is a world leader. Battery electric vehicles sales accounted for 42% of the market there in 2019. The top sellers were the Tesla Model 3, the VW e-Golf, Nissan Leaf, Audi e-tron, and BMW i3. But why is Norway, a small and northern nation with 5.35 million people, also an EV leader?
The answer is government leadership in the form of policies and EV incentives supporting EV adoption. Some of the current incentives are:
Though this is an impressive list, there have been others as well that are now retired. For example:
Unni Berge, Head of Communication and Public Relations of the Norwegian EV Association, answered some questions for CleanTechnica about all of the EV support.
Why did the Norwegian government decide to be aggressive about promoting zero-emission vehicles?
To fulfill Norway’s climate commitments. Norway manages the shift to EVs by taxing pollution and promoting environmental friendly solutions.
Why did the Norwegian Parliament decide that by 2025 all new cars sold should be zero-emission?
To speed up the transition from a fossil fuel to electric passenger car fleet, hence Norway’s climate commitments.
What percentage of cars in Norway now are either all-electric or gas-electric hybrids?
By the 31st of December 2019, the market share in new car sales reached 42.2 percent for fully electric cars. Ten percent of the total passenger car fleet will shortly be fully electric cars.
Most electricity production there comes from renewables. Is the vision for Norway eventually to have only clean, renewable energy and only electric vehicles?
Norwegian electricity production is already renewable. The Norwegian Parliament has decided that in 2025 all new vehicles will be zero emission. In this way, we will eventually have all the passenger car fleet on renewable energy.
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