Norway wraps up 2025 with 96% of its new car market fully electric, and Tesla's sales are surging there

A record-breaking twelvemonth for electrical conveyance (EV) income successful Norway puts the state within touching distance of efficaciously erasing gasoline and diesel cars from its caller car market.

A full of 95.9% of each caller cars registered successful Norway past twelvemonth were EVs, according to data published Friday by the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council (OFV). In December, 98% of caller cars were EVs.

The yearly fig was up from 88.9% astatine the extremity of 2024.

A grounds of 179,549 caller rider cars were registered successful Norway past year, OFV information showed, representing a 40% leap year-on-year and breaking the country's erstwhile yearly grounds successful 2021.

The figures reaffirm the oil-producing country's presumption arsenic a planetary person successful sustainable transportation.

"2025 has been a precise peculiar car year. We spot the effect of semipermanent and targeted electrical car policy, and however circumstantial taxation decisions person contiguous effects connected the market," OFV manager Geir Inge Stokke said successful a statement.

"The last sprint towards the extremity of the twelvemonth has been historically strong, and determination is nary uncertainty that the VAT alteration from January 1, 2026 has contributed to a large galore choosing to unafraid a caller electrical car earlier the twelvemonth was over," helium added.

Norway's Deputy Transport Minister Cecilie Knibe Kroglund told CNBC past twelvemonth that semipermanent and accordant policies designed to enactment the uptake of EVs — alternatively than imposing measures to prohibition the usage of interior combustion motor vehicles — had been pivotal to the country's transition.

Elon Musk's Tesla cemented its presumption arsenic the top-selling car marque successful Norway for a 5th consecutive year.

The U.S.-based EV-maker found solace successful Norway done 2025, contempt a sustained slump successful respective different cardinal European markets during the year.

A full of 34,285 caller rider Tesla cars were registered successful Norway past year, which means that astir 1 retired of each 5 caller cars successful Norway was a Tesla. It's a 41% year-on-year summation connected the 24,259 caller Teslas registered successful the state successful 2024.

Tesla's Model Y was particularly popular, with 27,621 first-time registrations nationwide, OFV information showed.

"Taking astir 20 percent marketplace stock successful a twelvemonth with record-high caller car income is successful itself remarkable," Stokke said. "When a marque besides achieves specified volumes with truthful fewer models, it says a batch astir some request and Tesla's interaction successful the Norwegian market."

Also connected Friday, Tesla revealed it had delivered 418,227 cars successful the fourth 4th of 2025, 16% little than the 4th fourth of 2024, erstwhile Elon Musk's EV institution reported 495,570 deliveries.