EV sales in Norway increased from 1% of sales in 2010 to 96% in early 2025

6 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by bookofjoe

4 Comments

toomuchtodo

14 hours ago

"Norway, the first country to use only electric vehicles"

Related:

Norway declares victory in move away from gas cars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607169 - October 2025 (14 comments)

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sgt

13 hours ago

A lot of ICE cars still around so that headline is a tad misleading.

toomuchtodo

12 hours ago

bookofjoe’s title modifications were reasonable, I included the original title in my comment for searchability in the future

JumpCrisscross

13 hours ago

29% electric, 7% plug-in hybrid, 5% conventional hybrid, 33% diesel and 25% gasoline [1].

Diesel and gasoline infrastructure is complementary. Within the next 3 years, we should see EVs represent 50% of the Norwegian fleet. I’m watching to see at what threshold pumped-fuel infrastructure starts falling into a doom loop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N... April ‘25, passenger cars