Every fourth car in the toll ring in Oslo is an electric car
In February, 30.6 million cars passed a toll station in Oslo. This is an increase of 5.7 percent compared with last year. The electric car…
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Electric cars accounted for about half of the new registrations in February
In February this year, 10,346 new passenger cars were registered in Norway. Electric cars accounted for almost 50 percent. This shows figures from the Road…
Electric cars soon have to pay for parking in municipal places in Oslo
From March 1st, electric car owners must pay in municipal parking places in Oslo, although they only pay 20 per cent of what petrol and…
More repairs on electric cars than other cars
Electric cars have more car damage repairs than other cars, figures from Finance Norway show. Tesla tops the damage statistics. The statistics are taken from…
Electric cars accounted for over 40 per cent of new registrations in January
In January this year, 9,561 new passenger cars were registered in Norway. Electric cars accounted for over 40 per cent.Figures were collected by the Information Council for the…
The target of 10 percent of electric cars reached
Soon, one in ten passenger cars driving on Norwegian roads will be an electric car. Last year, more than four out of ten cars sold…
Electric cars can no longer park for free in Oslo
As of the first of March, electric cars must also pay to park in municipal places in Oslo. From the same day, the price of…
Rogalanders want an electric car – diesel is the most popular in Telemark
30 per cent of those surveyed in Rogaland want an electric car the next time they buy a car. Only 17 per cent want a…
Low risk of fire in electric cars
The Norwegian Electric Car Association believes Gjensidige creates the false impression that electric cars are unsafe fire bombs following the fierce fire in a car…
High jump in tolls for electric cars in Oslo
From the First of March, electric vehicle motorists will have to pay NOK 10 and 15 to pass the two toll ring stations in Oslo,…
More than half of all cars sold in 2020 will be electric, according to car importers
The Car Importers’ National Association (Bilimportørenes Landsforening) estimates that Norwegians will buy 150,000 new cars in 2020. Up to 60 per cent of them will…
The queues decreased once Oslo introduced a charging fee
The municipality of Oslo will not reach the goal of charging stations for electric cars. The charging queues, on the other hand, have decreased after…
Ap will have a cap on the VAT exemption for electric cars
There are major differences in how much electric car owners have to pay in fees. Hadia Tajik in the Labor Party would like to end…
The share of new electric cars sales fell in October
Electric cars accounted for a third of new car sales in October, the second lowest month so far this year. At the same time, several…
18 electric cars per charging station in Norway
Electric cars have access to charging stations in most municipalities. On average, 18 electric cars share each widely available charging point. At the same time,…
Highest share of electric cars is in Finnøy – every fourth car is powered by electricity
Finnøy in Rogaland is the municipality in the country with the highest proportion of electric cars. Here, 26 percent of cars – more than one…
New EU rules: Electric cars have to make more noise
New EU regulations now require all electric cars to be equipped with a noise system to alert pedestrians that a car is nearby. The regulations…
Smart car charging could save NOK 11 billion
If charging electric cars occurs when the power consumption is low, no extra capacity is needed in the network according to a report made for…
NAF warns of charging crisis for electric cars
NAF warned of large charging queues for electric cars and believes that Norway needs 1,400 new fast chargers of 50 kilowatts or more already this…
More than half of newly registered cars in March were electric cars
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration registered 10,315 electric cars in March, and for the first time more than half of the newly registered cars in…