The land of fjords and electric mobility: how Norway is creating the world’s most advanced car market with privileges for e-cars

The land of fjords and electric mobility: how Norway is creating the world’s most advanced car market with privileges for e-cars

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Norway has been setting an impressive pace in the transition to electric mobility for years. In 2013, e-cars still had a market share of around six percent in the Scandinavian country. That may not sound like much at first. But by international standards, it was an impressive figure. In Germany, the share was a negligible 0.2 percent at the time.

In 2020, the Stromer led for the first time

Since then, of course, a lot has happened in Germany. In 2020, electric cars already accounted for 6.7 percent of new registrations in the Federal Republic. Compared to the previous year, that's an increase of a whopping 207 percent. And yet the Scandinavians still lead the world in per capita terms. At the beginning of January, the Norwegian Road Transport Association then announced the big breakthrough: in 2020, for the first time, more electric cars were newly registered than classic combustion engines. The total number of new registrations was around 76,800, which corresponds to