In September electric vehicles were 77.5% of all new cars sold in Norway.

 

Over the past few years more and more electric vehicles have been sold in Norway and this is starting to create a problem for the country. Initially Norway proposed lots of incentives to buy electric vehicles. One of these major incentives was that electric vehicles could travel on the toll roads free of charge. These vehicles had toll charge exemption removed in 2017 and these vehicles were exempted from hefty taxes including VAT and purchase tax which made these cars cheaper than their equivalent cars with an internal combustion engine. With so many electric vehicles now on the road Norway is not managing to raise enough taxes from the petrol and diesel cars and so they are starting to scrap some of the new incentives to persuade people to buy electric cars which is putting into doubt the target of selling no more combustion engines by 2025.