Electric vehicles account for over 20% of Norway's new-car sales

Plug-in electric car sales in Norway continue at just above 20% (21.03%) market share with 2,235 registrations in February 2015. Battery-only electric vehicles now account for 18% of all new-car sales.

The over-all #1 best selling car in Norway for the second month running is the VW e-Golf with 839 units. Sales of the Volkswagen e-Golf in Feb were almost double the top selling fossil fuelled car, the Toyota RAV4 with 450 sales.

The e-Golf accounts for almost 40% of all EV sales in Norway YTD (1,718) selling 3x more than second place Nissan Leaf (556) and 4x more than third placed Tesla Model S (392).

The ICE powered Volkswagen Golf has been one of the best selling cars in Norway for many years but the e-Golf and GTE Plug-in variants now account for 70% of all Volkswagen sales in Norway.

The Norwegian e-Golf sales success sends a clear signal to auto makers that non-quirky, conservative body styling can boost EV market share significantly.

Pl	Norway	Feb.	YTD '15	%	'14Pl
1	Volkswagen e-Golf	839	1.718	39	5
2	Nissan Leaf	247	556	12	1
3	Tesla Model S	321	392	9	2
4	Mitsu Outlander PHEV e)	150	384	9	6
5	Volkswagen e-Up! e)	160	331	7	3
6	BMW i3	126	227	5	4
7	Audi A3 e-Tron	134	188	4	21
8	Kia Soul EV	45	137	3	7
9	Renault Zoe	54	133	3	8
10 11	Mitsubishi I-Miev Peugeot iOn	32 54	130 114	3 3	9 11
12	Volvo V60 Plug-In	27	57	1	14
13 14 15 16 17	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia e) Mercedes B-Class ED e) BMW i8 Toyota Prius Plug-In Opel Ampera	20 20 4 2	53 22 10 5 2	1 0 0 0 0	15 N/A 20 17 21
	TOTAL	2.235	4.459	100