Norway Cars

Hot on the heels of still-dominant diesel cars, electric vehicles now outnumber petrol models for the first time in oil-rich Norway, a world first that puts the country on track to taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road.

Wearing a white lab coat and with a gas mask within reach, Ole Jorgen Gronvold measures the humidity of an intriguing dark powder touted as the planet's next "black gold".

Six people were injured on Sunday and rushed to hospital after a car taking part in an Oslo motor show drove into the stands, police said.

Overall new sales in Norway rose by 25% in 2021 to a record 176,276 cars, of which 65% were fully electric. This market share was up from 54% in 2020.

It will have stiff competition in Norway with the likes of Volvo, BMW, Audi, Mercedes Benz and Tesla offering EVs in the market.

Norway should begin taxing high-end battery-powered cars to lower the overall cost of its generous electric vehicle (EV) incentives, economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a working paper.

The first shipment of 100 units of the Tang all-wheel-drive SUVs sets sail from the Port of Shanghai, scheduled to arrive at dealerships in Norway towards the end of summer.

Tesla has been found guilty of throttling the charging speed and battery capacity of cars by a Norwegian court after a software update. The verdict came after at least 30 Tesla car owners filed a complaint with the court, saying the software update in 2019 cut the vehicle's battery life, reduced the range, and increased the time it took to charge. ...

The one-millionth car is the Han EV that rolled off the production line at BYD's headquarters and manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, in China.

Seeking to become the first nation to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2025, oil-producing Norway exempts fully electric vehicles from taxes imposed on those relying on fossil fuels.

This update is coming to users in the UK, US, Canada, Austria, Belgian, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Norway, Spain, Sweden & Switzerland.

New electric car sales in Norway rose by a third last year amid soaring demand for Tesla Inc's vehicles, but the pioneering U.S. company will face a more competitive market in 2020 as rivals prepare to launch new electric models.

The fully-electric Audi e-Tron SUV has become the top-selling vehicle in Norway, for the month of October 2019. According to the registration data shared by the Norwegian Road Federation, the Ingolstadt-based carmaker delivered 879 units of the Audi e-Tron electric SUV in Norway last month.

Lamborghini has announced adding Norway to its list of most spectacular places and roads in the world to discover as part of its expedition series, Lamborghini Avventura. The supercars went above the Arctic Circle to explore the Lofoten Islands, with the new Lamborghini Huracan EVO.

In total, 48.4% of all new cars sold from January to June were electric, surpassing the 31.2% seen for the full year 2018, and making oil-producing Norway the global leader in per-capita electric car sales by a wide margin.

Hot on the heels of still-dominant diesel cars, electric vehicles now outnumber petrol models for the first time in oil-rich Norway, a world first that puts the country on track to taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road.

Wearing a white lab coat and with a gas mask within reach, Ole Jorgen Gronvold measures the humidity of an intriguing dark powder touted as the planet's next "black gold".

Six people were injured on Sunday and rushed to hospital after a car taking part in an Oslo motor show drove into the stands, police said.

Overall new sales in Norway rose by 25% in 2021 to a record 176,276 cars, of which 65% were fully electric. This market share was up from 54% in 2020.

It will have stiff competition in Norway with the likes of Volvo, BMW, Audi, Mercedes Benz and Tesla offering EVs in the market.

Norway should begin taxing high-end battery-powered cars to lower the overall cost of its generous electric vehicle (EV) incentives, economists at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a working paper.

The first shipment of 100 units of the Tang all-wheel-drive SUVs sets sail from the Port of Shanghai, scheduled to arrive at dealerships in Norway towards the end of summer.

Tesla has been found guilty of throttling the charging speed and battery capacity of cars by a Norwegian court after a software update. The verdict came after at least 30 Tesla car owners filed a complaint with the court, saying the software update in 2019 cut the vehicle's battery life, reduced the range, and increased the time it took to charge. ...

The one-millionth car is the Han EV that rolled off the production line at BYD's headquarters and manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, in China.

Seeking to become the first nation to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2025, oil-producing Norway exempts fully electric vehicles from taxes imposed on those relying on fossil fuels.

This update is coming to users in the UK, US, Canada, Austria, Belgian, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Norway, Spain, Sweden & Switzerland.

New electric car sales in Norway rose by a third last year amid soaring demand for Tesla Inc's vehicles, but the pioneering U.S. company will face a more competitive market in 2020 as rivals prepare to launch new electric models.

The fully-electric Audi e-Tron SUV has become the top-selling vehicle in Norway, for the month of October 2019. According to the registration data shared by the Norwegian Road Federation, the Ingolstadt-based carmaker delivered 879 units of the Audi e-Tron electric SUV in Norway last month.

Lamborghini has announced adding Norway to its list of most spectacular places and roads in the world to discover as part of its expedition series, Lamborghini Avventura. The supercars went above the Arctic Circle to explore the Lofoten Islands, with the new Lamborghini Huracan EVO.

In total, 48.4% of all new cars sold from January to June were electric, surpassing the 31.2% seen for the full year 2018, and making oil-producing Norway the global leader in per-capita electric car sales by a wide margin.