Norwegian Plug-In EV Market Up 34%, Nearly 4,000 Sales In July

Aug 08, 2017 at 5:00pm

By: Mark Kane, European Editor

In June, Norway set several new all-time plug-in EV sales records, reaching a market share of 42%.

Unfortunately July didn't manage to reach quite the same level of success ... but it was still the best July result ever, so we can't complain too much.

Nissan LEAF in Norway

For the month, new passenger plug-in vehicle registrations hit 3,968, which is nearly 34% more than a year ago. Plug-ins represented 34.6% of the total automotive market in Norway.

BEVs (1,821 – up 65.1%, good for 15.9% market share) + 522 used and 30 vans (21 new and 7 used)
PHEVs (2,147 – up 15.1%, good for 18.7% market share)
FCVs (3 - no comment necessary)

Here are several top BEV results:

VW e-Golf: it was first, but we don't have the exact sales splits yet
Nissan LEAF: 334
BMW i3: 277
Renault ZOE: 250
Opel Ampera E: 200
Tesla Model X: 103
Tesla Model S: 57

The Opel Ampera-e has now reached 834 registrations through the end of July, so our expectation is for the 238 mile EV to cross into 4 digits by the end of August - although GM has forecast that their might be some inventory shortages in the second half of 2017 before production really gets into the 'swing of things' in 2018.