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A world first. Electric cars now outnumber gasoline-powered models on the roads of Norway, a major hydrocarbon producer on the verge of successfully electrifying its vehicle fleet. Of the 2.8 million individual vehicles currently registered in the Scandinavian kingdom, 754,303 are all-electric, or 26% of the vehicle fleet, compared to 753,905 that run on gasoline, the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Board (OFV) announced on Tuesday.
The unbeatable diesel
Nevertheless, diesel vehicles are still the most numerous, with almost a million units (around 35% of the total), but their market share is falling sharply. “This is historic,” said Øyvind Solberg Thorsen, director of the OFV, in a press release. “Norway is moving rapidly towards the goal of becoming the first country in the world whose vehicle fleet will be dominated by electric cars,” he added.
Electricity around the world
“To my knowledge, there is no other country in the world in the same situation,” namely where the electric fleet is replacing gasoline, Øyvind Solberg Thorsen told AFP. According to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), electric vehicles represented only 3.2% of the global vehicle fleet (4.1% in France, 7.6% in China, 18% in Iceland) in 2023, and these figures, unlike the Norwegian data, include plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Norway, paradoxically a major producer of natural gas and oil, has set itself the objective of selling only new zero-emission cars – in other words, electric cars because hydrogen is very marginal from 2025, ten years before the European Union.
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