In Norway, electric vehicles (EVs) have outnumbered gasoline-powered cars, according to the latest vehicle registrations. data The Norwegian Road Federation announced this on Tuesday.
In Norway, a major global oil exporter, there are currently 754,303 EVs registered, slightly more than the 753,905 petrol cars. The Scandinavian country has 2.8 million registered passenger cars, including diesels.
Øyvind Solberg Thorsen, chairman of the Norwegian Road Federation, known as OFV, said: It is called The minister said the milestone was “historic” and that vehicle electrification was progressing at a “rapid pace” with Japan approaching becoming the first country in the world to have a majority of its cars be electric.
Sales of electric vehicles have been spurred by government incentives and tax breaks, largely funded by revenues from oil and gas exports, in the country of 5.5 million people, which is one of Western Europe's wealthiest and top oil and gas producers.
Last year, 14 million new electric vehicles were registered worldwide. According to To the International Energy Agency: EVs will account for about 18% of all vehicles by 2023, up from 14% in 2022. In 2018, they were just 2%.
About 95% of global EV sales three Market area: Europe, the United States, and China. New car registrations are expected to reach approximately 8.1 million units in 2023.
EV registrations in the U.S. reached 1.4 million last year, up about 40% from 2022. In Europe, the number of registered electric vehicles reached 3.2 million last year, up 20% compared to 2022.
