8,477 electric cars were newly registered in Norway in February, which corresponds to a 94.7 per cent share of total car registrations for the month. And none of the usual suspects are at the top of the model rankings; instead the Nissan Ariya took the lead.
The trend is therefore continuing in Norway: With 8,954 new electric cars, 95.8 per cent of all new registrations in January were already purely electric; in February, the figure was 8,477 out of 8,949 new registrations. In other words, only 472 new registrations did not have a battery-electric drive. In February 2024, the proportion of electric vehicles was already 90.1 per cent, in February 2025 it was 94.7 per cent.
The fact that new registrations in February increased by 21.3 per cent year-on-year to 8,949 vehicles is primarily due to the growth in electric cars. In February 2024, 733 combustion engines and hybrids were still new on the roads. For the Norwegian road information authority OFV, the growth itself is due to increasing optimism that people will now fulfil “the long-delayed dream of owning a new car.”
“Competition is fierce on the new car market. Nevertheless, I don’t think there will be a price war or major price increases this year,” says OFV Director Øyvind Solberg Thorsen. “Rather, the prices for electric cars could fall somewhat and I believe that last year’s ‘promotional prices’ will become the new normal this year.”
And if the car market is growing in Norway, then this is the case for battery-electric drives. The largest drive type after the 8,477 electric cars is 154 petrol hybrids, followed by 145 new diesels and 134 plug-in hybrids with petrol engines. Pure petrol cars accounted for just 37 new registrations or 0.4 per cent of the market. Two plug-in hybrids with diesel engines round off the new registrations.
According to OFV Director Solberg Thorsen, the choice of models is increasingly falling on slightly smaller and cheaper cars than before. “The VAT threshold of over NOK 500,000 for electric cars is clearly significant. Many buyers of a new car are aware of this limit and stay just below or close to this amount,” says Solberg Thorsen. “And this is possible because there are now many brands and models available at a price level that meets the needs of most car buyers.” 500,000 Norwegian kroner is the equivalent of around 42,740 euros.
However, this trend is not yet directly visible in the model statistics, as the top 3 are shared by vehicles that have already been on the market for some time. Somewhat surprisingly, the Nissan Ariya is in the lead with 627 new registrations, closely followed by the (old) Tesla Model Y and the Toyota bZ4X.
In February, the Nissan Ariya took first place in the model ranking with 627 new registrations, ahead of the Tesla Model Y (604) and the Toyota bZ4X (574). The VW ID.3 followed with 512 vehicles over the 500 mark. The VW ID.7 (389), the ID.3 (335) and the Tesla Model 3 (311) follow at some distance ahead of the new Kia EV3 (287), the Skoda Enyaq (268) and the Volvo EX30 (261). Like the Model Y, the Eynaq is also in the middle of a model changeover to a revised facelift version, which is why the coming months will provide a better picture of demand.
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