If you drive a lot in and out of a city, the bill for congestion tax can quickly add up to quite high amounts.
In Oslo, however, some motorists pay half the price for the congestion tax. Like so much in Norway, environmental thinking is behind it.
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Discriminates between fuels
In the Norwegian capital, they discriminate between cars with different propulsion when charging congestion tax – or “toll” as it is called in Norway.
If you drive through the tolls during rush hour, or “rush time”, with a petrol or diesel car, you have to pay SEK 39 and SEK 42, respectively. Hybrid cars pay the same as petrol cars.
If you drive an electric car, on the other hand, the toll costs only SEK 19 during rush hour, which is half the price compared to petrol and hybrid cars.
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Getting more people to buy electric cars
According to Norwegian law, electric cars must pay a maximum of 70 percent of the congestion tax for gasoline cars, but the cities can decide for themselves whether they want to give a bigger discount.
The effect of electric cars paying less congestion tax has been that more people living in cities with congestion tax switch to electric cars to save money. That’s what Unni Berge at the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association says Sweden’s Radio P4 Gothenburg.
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Previously exempted from congestion tax
Previously, electric cars did not have to pay congestion tax at all in Norway, but it was removed in 2020.
In Sweden, we have congestion tax in boats Stockholm and Gothenburgbut does not discriminate between which fuels they run on.
In Gothenburg, the fee is SEK 22 per passage during rush hour, and the maximum fee per car per day is SEK 60.
In Stockholm, you pay a maximum of SEK 45 per passage, and the maximum amount per car per day is SEK 135.
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