KATHMANDU: Electric vehicles accounted for nearly all new passenger car sales in Norway in 2025, as fossil-fuel models almost disappeared from the market.
According to data from Norway’s transport statistics agency OFV, a total of 179,549 passenger cars were registered during the year. Of these, 172,232 units were fully electric, accounting for 95.9 percent of total sales.
An additional 2,751 units were plug-in hybrids, taking the share of vehicles with a charging plug to 97.5 percent. Only 1.3 percent of new cars sold in 2025 did not have a traction battery.
Sales of fossil-fuel vehicles dropped to record lows. Just 487 petrol cars and 1,773 diesel cars were registered throughout the year. No hydrogen-powered cars were registered in 2025.
Norway also reached a major milestone in 2025, with electric cars outnumbering diesel vehicles on the road for the first time. EVs had earlier overtaken petrol-only cars in overall numbers.
Norway had announced a non-binding target in 2017 to phase out fossil-fuel car sales by 2025. Current registration figures show the country has effectively met that goal.
