8,954 new electric cars registered in Norway over January

In Norway, 8,954 of the 9,343 new passenger cars in January were electric cars. This corresponds to a share of 95.8 per cent. Even by Norwegian standards, this is a new record - albeit a new one.

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These figures put January 2025 on a completely different level than the previous year. At that time, 92.1 per cent of new registrations were also purely electric, but with 4,717 new electric cars out of 5,122 new cars, there were significantly fewer vehicles overall. The Norwegian road information authority OFV sees this as a sign of “economic optimism.” “With over 9,300 new passenger cars in the first month of the year, we are roughly at the level we were used to before the sharp decline in new car sales in 2023 and 2024,” says OFV Director Øyvind Solberg Thorsen. “Signals of interest rate cuts and rising purchasing power will probably lead to more people realising their desire for a new car.”

And in Norway, these are now almost exclusively electric. However, the new record electric car share of almost 96 per cent comes as no surprise: years ago, the Norwegian government set a (non-binding) target for the end of 2025 of only registering purely electric new cars. Many manufacturers and their Norwegian import companies and trading partners have geared their product range towards this goal.

However, the OFV believes it is still too early to expect the 100 per cent target for the end of the year to be achieved, even with the January record. “In the last five days of January alone, the proportion of electric cars has actually fallen slightly, and a few hundred have opted for a diesel or petrol car,” explained Solberg Thorsen.

Specifically, in addition to the 8,954 new electric cars, there were 137 diesel, 124 petrol hybrids, 94 plug-in hybrids with petrol (and one with diesel) and 33 pure petrol cars without hybridisation. Fuel cell vehicles are not mentioned.

Even if there are still a few new diesel and hybrid models, the situation in Norway is clear: of the first 50 models in the registration statistics, only two are non-electric, with the first non-BEV in 33rd place. This is enormous even by Norwegian standards, as some Toyota hybrids – such as the Yaris or RAV4 – have repeatedly made it into the top ten.

However, this does not mean that Toyota is slipping in the model statistics – quite the opposite. With 1,188 new registrations, the Toyota bZ4X leads the first Norwegian registration statistics for 2025. The VW ID.4, a ‘usual suspect,’ follows in second place with 830 new registrations, while the Nissan Ariya completes the podium with 544 units.

As two other VW models follow in 4th and 5th place with the ID.3 (537) and ID.7 (490), the Wolfsburg-based company is also at the top of the brand statistics, with 1,899 new Volkswagens beating Toyota with 1,354 vehicles. Tesla (still in the lead in 2024 with the Model Y) has to make do with 361 units of the E-SUV with tang six – it is possible that the upcoming generation change to the Model Y Juniper is causing some restraint here. However, the Model 3 is right behind it with 324 new registrations in January, putting Tesla in third place in the brand ranking. The first German e-car not made by VW is the BMW i4 in 9th place with 243 units, ahead of the Cologne-built Ford Explorer (221).

ofv.no (quotes), ofv.no (press release), ofv.no (models, all three in Norwegian)

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