Electric cars and hybrids in Norway has already captured 55% of the market!

10 November 2018

Diesel passenger cars in Norway die within a year?

 According to ev-sales are at the best on the market today of the actuator, ie in Norway October segment electric vehicles (BEV) jumped to 39%, and together with hybrids (PHEV) – up to 55% of the total market, although not reached record levels in March. Moreover, this figure would have been even more sensational, if not for the introduction of WLTP-regulations which crippled the hybrids.

In this upward "electric trend" in the coming 2019, in Norway, it is real output segment PEV (BEV+PHEV) for over 2/3 of the market, and maximum monthly indicators, can exceed 80%! Ambitious? Of course! But this year the market share of electric drive in Norway has reached the level of 52%. Well, next year we will see how paraschou ocean Tesla Model 3 with 60-kW battery, and the new Kia Niro EV, and the results of the first full year of sales of Hyundai Kona BEV, etcetc. So that certain prerequisites for encouraging such bold conclusions are.

Proof of this are the sales of the PHEV, which took 55% of the market in October and BEV (39% vs. 22% over the same month last year), followed by a conventional car with a gasoline internal combustion engine (19% of all sales, down from 23% a year earlier), while diesel vehicles fell again to 14% against 20% a year earlier. The pace car diesel models finally leave the Norwegian market for the past two, if at all, not one next year!

In the ranking of Top 5 market models improvements were all best-sellers, the leader Nissan Leaf with the result Thal the best for the last 7 months with 1292 units, and VW e-Golf has regained his "mojo" with 978 units showing the best result since the beginning of the year. The BMW i3 October was the best month since March. Interestingly, placement in Top-3 for October is fully consistent with the rating and for the first 10 months of 2018.

Outside of the podium, which became the 4th Volvo XC60 PHEV became the best selling rechargeable hybrid, which as mentioned has suffered because of the new certification rules, however, the Swedish SUV has reached the Best year in October, thanks to 473 units.

Surprise of the month was the Jaguar electrocreaser i-Pace, who reached 5th place – finally British SUV began to justify previously issued to him large advances.

The compact electric car the Renault Zoe is a 6-m thanks to the implementation of 411 units, which became his best result at the local market in 2018, and here he helped a lot of fleet sales and, in particular, the delivery of a batch of nearly 100 electrochemical company car-share NSB. However, given the volume of sales of the Renault Zoe in Europe, we can say that French electro hatchback costs just combines the right ingredients: a fairly low price with a large reserve and is also convenient to corporate fleets ("fleets") the compact dimensions.

The most important news in the rating of 2018 is the return of the hybrid crossover Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV in the top five, and with sufficient sales in relation to number 7 – competitor Volvo XC60 PHEV, which certainly allows you to save it as a favorite for the title of "Bestseller PHEV 2018," which will be for this model fifth consecutive title.

New electric car Hyundai Ioniq Electric has risen to the Top 10, becoming the 7th among BEV, underscoring the revolutionary character of the situation in the market where there are not only PEV in General, but electric cars (+69%) eagerly absorb the sale of models such as PHEV.

Proof of this breakthrough is the Kia Soul EV, which, as they say, will get a successor in early next year, but, nevertheless, by the end of this year still continues to gain positions and have reached the 14th place.

Was in October of 441 units. i electrocreaser of Jaguar-Pace, was 96% (!) of the total sales of the brand Jaguar this month. At this rate, this model will be able to take off and in the Top 20 in November, despite the fact that she has already surpassed another potential bestseller Hyundai Kona EV, which is still struggling with a quotation of supply, implemented in October only 54 units

In General, the rating of the leading manufacturers Nissan (19%, up 2% from the former), but it is sufficient with a small margin followed by BMW (15%), Volkswagen (15%, up 1%) and Tesla (11% and +1%), so at first glance, the Japanese automaker needs to closely monitor competitors to hold the palm, but since a large part of the German pursuers offer PHEV – it will be harder to implement them in the last quarter of the year, which they will be able to get ahead of Tesla, able to take at the end of 2018 "silver".

At the current rate of growth segment of the PEV market in December, the possible situation in which the entire Top-10 is electric cars and hybrids, which will eventually displace the ICE-model – petrol (including traditional bestseller the Toyota Yaris, now occupies only 7-e a place) and especially the diesel models down on the table.

Blue marked – electric, black – PHEV, and the orange – cars gasoline engine 

PS Interesting statistical fact was a record 45% share of electric vehicles (BEV) in the Norwegian market in September, only received by four regions (Hordaland, Oslo, Rogaland and Akershus), where their share exceeded 50% of the market. Not surprisingly, all these areas are in the South of Norway, where the climate is milder. Surprisingly, Northern region, tromsø showed a level of 32%, while the neighbouring region of Finnmark only 14%. The reason is that in the capital region, Tromso is a city system of charges, that is the deciding factor when buying an EV in many cities of Norway..