Electric-automobile gross sales jump to record 54% current market share in Norway in 2020 but Tesla loses top rated spot

The Norwegian federal government ideas to ban the sale of petrol and diesel automobiles by 2025, and has utilized incentives and tax breaks in current decades to motivate an electrical-vehicle increase.

Battery-electrical autos (BEVs) designed up 54.3% of new passenger-auto sales in 2020, up from 42% in 2019, according to figures revealed by the Norwegian Highway Federation (OFV) on Tuesday.

December was a bumper thirty day period for car sales in the Nordic nation — the ideal on history — as a lot more than 20,000 new cars had been registered. Of these, 66.7% were being electric powered cars and 4,232 have been Tesla Product 3s — much more than 20% of all motor vehicle sales in the month.

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Even so, Tesla’s
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preferred midsize model — the bestselling car in Norway in 2019 — fell to second position in 2020, shedding out to Volkswagen’s
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Audi e-tron with Volkswagen’s ID.3 in 3rd.

Subsequent a report year for Tesla in Norway in 2019, the U.S. business faced stiffer competitors in 2020 as its rivals launched a number of electric powered cars, though the COVID-19 pandemic also influenced gross sales.

December observed one thing of a comeback, with Tesla promoting 4,232 cars — 54% of its annual 7,770 total. The organization is also set to start its Product Y electric powered SUV in Norway afterwards this year, Reuters described.