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Tesla holds nearly 50% market share in Norway

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Tesla holds nearly 50% market share in Norway this month, thanks to stellar Model Y sales in March. The American electric car maker has been dominating Norway’s EV sales for quite some time and hit a new milestone this year. Tesla sold 5,993 new vehicles in March, beating its last monthly sales record of 5,822 units set in March 2019.

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Yara planning 500 kton/year green ammonia project in Norway

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Leading fertilizer company Yara plans to electrify fully its ammonia plant in Porsgrunn, Norway with the potential to cut 800,000 tonnes of CO 2 per year, equivalent to the emissions from 300,000 passenger cars. In 2019, the company partnered with Nel to test Nel’s new prototype water electrolyzer technology at Porsgrunn.

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EEA final data shows average car CO2 emissions in Europe kept increasing in 2019

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Average emissions from new passenger cars in Europe increased for the third consecutive year in 2019, reaching 122.3?grams million new cars were registered in 2019 in the EU, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom, and about 38% of these were SUVs. In 2019, average CO 2 emissions from all new cars reached 122.3

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BYD sets out EV expansion strategy for Europe; Tang SUV heading to Norway first

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Pricing will be announced later this year when it goes on sale in Norway. In November 2019, BYD announced its intention to bring electric trucks to Europe at the end of 2020 to complement the well-established sales and supply of BYD eBuses right across Europe. Second-generation BYD Tang compact SUV.

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased again in 2019

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2 -emissions-from-new-cars-vans-2019">According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK), increased in 2019, for the third consecutive year. g CO 2 /km in total).

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Tesla Model Y continues to lead auto sales in Norway

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Norway’s Best Selling BEVs The Tesla Model Y broke all records in March, with the OFV recording 7,445 units registered. This even exceeds the shock result of the Tesla Model 3 from March 2019 (5,315 units), in both volume, and in market share. The Model Y alone took over 38% of Norway’s new passenger auto registrations in March.

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Norway December 2020

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A minor surprise comes from the Nissan Leaf, a model that scored 692 registrations last month, its best score in Norway since 2018. The Polestar 2 past through the unplugged Toyota squad and jumped into #10, thus making a fully pluggable Top 11 in Norway, and of those 11 models, only one, the #9 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV is not a BEV.

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