Electric and hybrid vehicles combined accounted for more than half of all new cars sold in Norway last year (52 percent), confirming the country’s pioneering role in low-carbon transport.
Zero-emission vehicles, i.e. mainly all-electric as well as a few hydrogen-powered cars, made up 20.9 percent of total sales in 2017, the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) reported Wednesday.
Norway, the biggest oil producer in Western Europe, has set itself the ambitious goal of selling only zero-emission cars starting from 2025.
Sales of diesel vehicles fell rapidly in 2017 to 23 percent, from 31 percent in the previous year, OFV statistics showed. Some regions in Norway have started to charge higher road tolls for diesel cars than for petrol-driven vehicles.
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