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Tesla Model Y continues to lead auto sales in Norway

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Norway’s plugin electric vehicles took 91.1% The slight dent in share came from a drop in plugin hybrid volume, against overall market growth. March’s combined plugin result of 91.1% plugin hybrids. Petrol-only vehicles saw their lowest share in modern history, taking just 1% of the market. year on year.

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EV sales in Norway explode ahead of policy changes

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Norway’s auto market saw plugin EV volume explode to take 87.6% Petrol vehicles also saw a relative sales surge ahead of increased emissions taxes. December’s combined plugin share of 87.6% Plugin hybrids (PHEVs) took just 4.8% Petrol vehicle volumes were 4x to 5x recent seasonal norms.

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France December 2020

EV Sales

These disruptive numbers are also reflecting on the plugin share, as last month it reached a record 19% (11% BEV), pulling the final 2020 share to 11% (6,7% BEV), a far cry from the 3% of 2019. With the 2020 plugin share firm in the two-digit region, expect this market to be disrupted further next year. 20% by the end of 2021?

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Norway December 2020

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Looking at the fuels breakdown, if plugins were up in December, the rest is falling quickly: HEVs had just 6% share of the market, petrol vehicles were down to just 3% share (it had 15% a year ago), while diesel had only 5%, while in the same month last year, the black fuel had 22% share.At

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Daimler/Mercedes Took over Daimler/Chrysler Sprinter PHEV program. They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol. 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. Reuters ).

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