Based on the steadily declining sales figures for new petrol and diesel cars, Norway could become the first country in the world to market only electrified models from next April.
From spring 2022, all sales of cars new in Norway could well only concern electrified models, 100% electric or hybrids rechargeable. This will make the Scandinavian country the very first in the world to completely switch into a new, all-electric era.
According to an analysis of sales figures of recent years published by the Federation automobile Norwegian (NAF), the very last sale of new combustion vehicles, petrol or diesel, is expected to take place in April 2022. The government had initially set 2025 as the deadline for the complete end of sales of new petrol and diesel cars. diesel, but the Norwegians were visibly much more reagents, faced with an increasingly extensive and efficient offer.
New combustion vehicles represent less than 10% of the market share
In the first nine months of 2021, cumulative sales of gasoline and diesel vehicles fell below the 10% market share mark. Top 15 sales of cars new vehicles in Norway is now composed almost exclusively of fully electric vehicles, with the exception of one model … plug-in hybrid. For the anecdote, the car at internal combustion engine The best-selling classic currently in Norway in 2021 is the Volkswagen Tiguan, which only appears in 38e position.
Obviously, the second-hand market is not going to make the car market disappear overnight. heat engines. Moreover, these still represent nearly 85% of cars in circulation throughout the country.
The French have never bought so many electrified cars
That Norway will become the very first country to sell only electrified models is hardly a surprise. The country has always favored the development of electric car, by setting up a tax incentive policy very early on to buy a “clean” car and by developing major infrastructures to be able to recharge them.
Although less obvious, the trend is the same everywhere, especially since the majority of car manufacturers have announced that they want to switch entirely to all-electric by 2035 or 2040 in the worst case.
In France, it will be necessary to wait much later than 2022 for it to no longer sell gasoline or diesel vehicles. However, the French have never bought so many electrified cars, with a record market share of 16.6% obtained in August 2021, for all 100% electric machines and plug-in hybrids. And this figure is only increasing, month after month …
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