Almost all new cars sold in Norway last year were fully electric, according to official registration data published Friday. It puts the Nordic country within touching distance of effectively erasing gasoline and diesel cars from its new car market. “2025 has been a very special car year,” Geir Inge Stokke, director of the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council, said in a statement.
Norwegians are pretty much the only Europeans who keep buying Tesla.
The British are too afaik
Yes and no. It seems Tesla is still more popular in the UK than in e.g. Germany, but it’s about the third-most popular electric car brand in the UK while it has been number one in Norway for 5 years. UK’s population is ~10 times higher than Norway’s.
Seems like Norway would be the very last place on Earth you’d wanna be with a car running on lithium batteries.
They do have a lot of cheap, low-carbon electricity because their geography is great for hydro. Evidently that weighs heavier than the reduced battery capacity, plus the median Norwegian is fairly wealthy compared to the median Brit or German, which would help a lot even if Norway didn’t have huge tax incentives for electric cars.
I’d just worry the batteries would crap out with their weather the way it is. Norway sounds like a great place to live.
Modern electric car batteries are evidently not that fragile, they just have reduced capacity at low tempertures.
They have a proper charging infrastructure and education so people can do math in their heads and not suffer “range anxiety”.