In 2019, electric vehicles and hybrids can occupy 70% of the Norwegian market

18 December 2018

The share of electric cars in Norway in November reached 41%, and with PHEV – 57%

Growing at a faster pace, the market for electric and hybrid cars in Norway, has made this small Northern country is one of the most important indicators for the global process of electrification of road transport, and, in the segment of individual passenger transport. Consider the market indicators PEV (BEV+PHEV) in November.
Despite the fact that the Norwegian market as a whole due to the decline in sales of plug-in hybrids (PHEV) 38% (due to the introduction of the coefficient of bonus-Malus on emissions of co₂), and in November reached record levels in March. However, brilliant selling battery electric vehicles (BEV), which amounted to 5087 units or + 88% compared to the same period last year, the November growth of the PEV market accounted for 20% to 7001 units. that on the background of falling car market as a whole 10%, which led to a rise in the market share of BEV to 41% and overall PEV to 57%, and this percentage could be even more confident if this result would come at the end of the quarter, when would the wave of Tesla. Maybe she comes in December?

In this context, in 2019 Norway should reach the level of PEV penetration share of about 70%, and in the peak months of sales, it may even reach 90%! Ambitious? Perhaps, because this year the share of PEV on the market reached a record 52% (!).

Tesla Model 3's fixing to strike the European market like a tsunami. 

  Well, in the beginning of next year is expected to mass import Tesla Model 3 from overseas (3000 units per week, however, that in the whole of Europe), number two in the market – the Nissan LEAF will get a version of E-Plus increased to 60 kWh capacity of the battery

The electric car Nissan Leaf 2 (the Intro) in 2019 will open a second wind in the form of the new 60-kW battery   

in addition, a compact electrocreaser Kia Niro EV with a 64-kilowatt battery,

The latest KIA Niro electrocreaser EV promises in 2019 to show great sales in Norway

and will begin the first full year of full deliveries of compact electrocreaser Hyundai Kona Electric, etc. So that the objective drivers of growth are, isn't it?

Proof of this are the PEV, the total share of which in last month has reached 57%, while the share of BEV reached 41%, which significantly exceeds the next model ICE, etcE. traditional petrol and diesel Dits, which accounts for 17%.

At this rate of falling sales end for new diesel passenger cars in Norway will come in about two years...

Norwegian Top-5 PEV for November includes four electric car (the three leaders) and one hybrid crossover

If you look at bestsellers of the November sales, the podium did not bring surprises, and even the leader – the Nissan LEAF showed another four-digit figure sales – 1209 units, followed by the VW e-Golf with 886 units and 714 units of the BMW i3, which was the best result of the model over the past two years.

Electric car Volkswagen e-Golf BEV in Norway No. 2 

The electric vehicle BMW i3 was in Norway, "the bronze" electric car

  outside of the podium, everything was interesting: the updated hybrid crossover Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV showed the best result in the last 32 months – 616 units, taking fourth place, and the Renault Zoe, becoming the No. 5 beat your personal best, implementing 464 machine.

Hybrid crossover Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV became the fourth overall in the Norwegian market

Interestingly, in the Top 9 for November fell as much as seven BEV that most clearly demonstrates the General vector of movement of the market...

If you look at the rankings for the first 11 months of 2018, the only change in the Top 10 is the Hyundai Ioniq Electric, has risen on 9-e a place with 358 units, a new record for the Korean electric vehicle

Within the Top 20 Korean brands also continue to climb to higher positions, so electrocreaser Kia Soul EV is now the 15th, beating German rival Audi A3 e-Tron, while Kia Niro PHEV went up on the 17-th position, being in front of the other a hybrid from the Volkswagen Group – the VW Golf hatchback GTE. Interesting coincidence, isn't it?

The latest I electrocreaser Jaguar-Pace picked up in Norway spirited start (20th place), and in 2019 it may take a high place in the Top 20 PEV

Further proof of the takeoff segment of the BEV performs the latest i electrocreaser Jaguar-Pace, who joined the Top-20 yet on closing the 20th position, thanks to 335 units. sold only in November (and 916 units for the whole of 2018), while another "long-range" BEV was going to join the "group of twenty".

Opel Ampera-e is made in the USA because of what he has in Europe, there is a problem with the standard rapid charger

This is the Opel Ampera-e (produced in the USA by beginining Chevy Bolt) that has now reached the 21st position with 903 units, thanks to the 178 units sold in November, which was the best indicator for the electric vehicle since the beginning of the year. Will GM finally change the type of the charging device under the European high-speed standard for electric car?

Electrocreaser Hyundai Kona EV while that in Norway a great lack of 

Supply only 130 units of Hyundai Kona EV for almost a year, allegedly due to production problems in Korea, clearly indicates a huge problem at your local dealer of Hyundai, which has already lined up a huge queue, but with the current pace of supply it will last for thousands of years.

As for the rating of brands, it is still in the lead of Nissan with a share of 19%, followed by Volkswagen (15%), which is still ahead of BMW (13%, which is 2% lower than the result of Oct), as well as Tesla and Volvo, with shares of 11%., still trying to overthrow the German mark from the pedestal, although in reality, only Tesla has the chance to achieve bronze, as it benefits from the usual peak sales at the end of the quarter, while its two rival too dependent on outmoded PHEV.

the Distribution of models by type of fuel

The already mentioned 57-the percentage of PEV allows this market segment to gradually substitute car market generally, for example, in terms of the distribution of sales by type of fuel, where all the leading Troika now consists of BEV, and three models of BEV and PHEV two models occupy the rest position to the eighth, inclusive. The last two positions in the Top 10, by the way, is not an ordinary ICE, and hybrids, HEV (i.e. not rechargeable). Accordingly, the bestseller segment HEV – hybrid crossover of Toyota RAV4 took only 9-th place, and the last position in the HEV model Toyota Yaris.

Perhaps the new generation Toyota RAV4 Hybrid 2019 and will be able to delay the loss of the Norwegian market, the Japanese brand

It turns out that ordinary cars of ICE from the Top 10 of the total car market in Norway has dropped out, and now the same fate threatens HEV. It is obvious that we will soon see the Norwegian Top 10 100% consisting solely of class models of PEV? Perhaps it is significant not only for the local market the event will occur in December of this year. It will be possible, if their position in the ranking pulled up both models of the Tesla.

Also characteristically, Toyota – historically popular in Norway, the brand, is now losing significant market share due to the fact that it has in all its vast model range... conventional battery-electric vehicle.

Reflection of things to come? Possible warning to all the other brands without operational plans to launch the production of pure electric vehicles: or launch a series of electric car, or out of the market..