Electric Cars Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The Max Adventure team has completed the Driven To Extremes Euro EV Marathon and driven a fully electric Kia EV6 Air from Oslo, Norway, to Portugal, beating its original target by arriving in just 3.75 days and having added an extra country to its itinerary.

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Fully Electric Kia Portugal Norway 109

CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Norway, the undisputed leader in electric vehicle adoption, saw a new record high plugin share of 87.7% in August 2021, up inexorably from 70.2% in August 2020. Full electrics alone took 72% of the market, meanwhile Diesels fell to a record low 3.2%. The overall auto market was up some 23% over seasonal norms, at […].

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Plugin Norway 2020 Diesel 145

CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 25, 2021

Norway’s Electric Car Association has released the results from its “Electric Car List 2021,” which includes survey responses on how satisfied electric vehicle owners are with their vehicles. It should be said first of all that owners of many different models love their vehicles.

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Norway Electric Cars Cars Electric 145

CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Norway, the world’s leading market in the electric vehicle transition, saw plugins take 91.2% share in November, up from 79.9% a year ago. Non-hybridized combustion vehicles saw a record low of under 5.1% share in November, with Petrol at just 2.3%

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Plugin Norway Petrol Hybrid 145

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 2, 2023

Growth continued for the Norwegian plugin EV market in May 2023, as combined plugin share hit almost 90%, up from 85% a year ago. Full electrics alone took almost 81% share, grabbing 7.5% more of the remaining market than last year. The overall auto market saw volumes of 13.342 units, up almost 16% YoY, and […]

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Norway Plugin Tesla Market 113

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Norway has offered strong incentives for motorists to switch to Electric Vehicles with strong tax incentives for electric vehicles. Norway made that plan back in 2016. Since the start of this year, 14 of the top 15 cars in Norway are all-electric, with the RAV4 Prime, in second place, as the only plug-in hybrid in the top 15.

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Norway Petrol BMW Volvo 52

InsideEVs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

First customer deliveries will start this month.

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Norway Kia 94

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The BMW iX3 electric car tallies 1,000 reservations in Norway. Kia drops the most affordable Soul EV variant. Porsche declares it's done building diesel-powered cars. We ask which electric SUV has readers most interested in a new Twitter poll. And will VW build any of its electric cars in the United States?

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Porsche Kia BMW Diesel 103

Electric Cars Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Driven to Extremes team aiming to drive a fully electric Kia EV6 from Oslo, Norway, to Lisbon, Portugal, in just five days has left on its epic 3,600-mile adventure.

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Miles Portugal Norway Kia 104

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Hyundai • Kia Motors and key hydrogen stakeholders from Sweden, Denmark, Norway & Iceland recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of collaboration towards market deployment of zero. Hyundai • Kia has actively been developing FCEVs as well as battery electric vehicles.

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Kia Hyundai Iceland Electric Vehicles 199

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Following up on our quarterly UK electric vehicle sales report and earlier monthly sales reports for Europe overall (see here, here, here, and here), the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, and China, it’s time to jump into the Nordic countries — well, most of them. In this report, I will quickly run through the brands and […].

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Norway Italy Netherlands France 138

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Kia EV9 brought artificial sunlight to one of the darkest areas in Norway. The all-electrified Kia’s vehicle-to-load (V2L) feature powered a 5-meter LED disc that mimicked sunlight. The sun barely comes out during the winter in Norway. The EV9’s battery can hold 99.8 kWh of energy.

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Norway Kia Grid Installation 77

CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Norway’s auto market saw 86.4% plugin electric vehicle share in October, down year on year, from 89.3%. Full electrics grew share by 7.5% YoY, but were outweighed by a drop in plugin hybrids. Overall auto volumes were 12,558 units, up 8.5% YoY, and above the pre-2020 seasonal norm of 11,635 units.

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Plugin PHEV Norway 2020 113

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Norway’s plugin electric vehicle market share in September broke new ground, hitting 91.5% with full electrics alone taking 77.5% Diesels lost more than half their share year-on-year, falling to just 2.3%, with petrol and plugless hybrids not faring much better. Overall auto market volume was 17992 units, slightly above seasonal norms.

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Plugin Norway Petrol Tesla 145

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 4, 2022

September saw Norway’s plugin electric vehicles take 89.1% of the market, down year on year from 91.5% Whilst full electrics saw very slight growth in share, plugin hybrids lost share. Overall auto volumes were at 14,646 units, down 18.6% YoY, though still up from pre-2020 seasonal norms (around 12,300 units).

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Plugin Norway 2020 Hybrid 98

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Following up on our quarterly UK electric vehicle sales report and Norway electric vehicle sales report, as well as earlier monthly sales reports for Europe overall (see here, here, here, and here), the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, and China, it’s time to jump into a few more Nordic markets.

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Finland Denmark Sweden Market 137

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 17, 2023

That score could have been even better if other markets, like Germany and Norway, hadn’t had inflated incentive-derived record months. December was another strong month in the Dutch market for plugin vehicle sales, with 15,757 plugin registrations. That might have starved […].

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Plugin Netherlands Norway Vehicles 101

Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2019

This was mirrored in Norway, where nearly twice as many zero-emission cars were sold than in February 2018, and the Tesla Model 3 and VW e-Golf were the two best-selling cars. BEVs continued to gain traction in markets such as Norway, where they counted for 40% of overall registrations, and the Netherlands, where they counted for 7%.

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Market Netherlands Denmark Spain 220

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

April sales figures are in for electric vehicle models in 10 European countries — Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark. The site EU-EVs.com have pulled the figures together, and I’ve created some charts of the April and January–April figures for this article.

Ireland 138

Ireland Finland Switzerland Denmark 138

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2020

They made up 77% of total car registrations in Norway, 38% in Sweden and 28% in Finland. —Felipe Munoz. The penetration of electrified vehicles in each market highlights the outstanding performance of these vehicles. —Felipe Munoz.

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2020 Europe Vehicles Land Rover 243

Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

Although BYD launched its Tang EV in Norway in 2020, the electric SUV began rolling out in Germany, the Netherlands, and other major European markets last year. BYD, which started as a battery maker, even outsources its batteries to Tesla, Toyota, Ford, Kia, and others. The BYD Tang is already due for an upgrade in Europe.

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BYD SUV Range Thailand 52

EV Central

JUNE 30, 2023

I know we’re all rushing to order our own BYD Atto3, Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, Kia EV6 or Hyundai Ioniq 5. And one person in the industry who’s been calling for this to happen for a while is Damien Meredith, the no-nonsense CEO of Kia Australia. In fact, it’s getting worse.

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Australia Electric Vehicles Vehicles Re-Charge 88

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation provided new details on their enhanced heat pump system, deployed in Hyundai and Kia’s global electric vehicle (EV) line-up to maximize their all-electric driving range in low temperatures. The technology was first introduced in 2014 on the first-generation Kia Soul EV.

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Kia Hyundai Waste Gas-Electric 348

Push EVs

APRIL 13, 2023

This is roughly where they are in Norway today. Being a similar size and shape to the very popular Kia Niro, the Atto 3 has every chance of eventual success in the UK market. Diesels continued to slide, taking just 3.8% of the market (only December ’22 was lower), from 5.6%

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Plugin Tesla PHEV Audi 59

Push EVs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Whilst this year France saw YoY plugin share growth in January, both the UK and Sweden have seen January’s plugin results flat, and both Norway and Germany saw a decline. Others seeing gains were Kia, taking 5th (from 16th in December), and Hyundai (8th, from 14th). Other brands were making more minor moves.

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Plugin Sale Electric Cars Cars 59

EV Sales

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Norway * Audi e-Tron #1 - The unexpected happened in the most electrified market in the World, with the high end Audi e-Tron winning in Norway, beating the Tesla Model 3, winner in 2019! . * 175.000 units - Another market on the fast lane, up 135% regarding 2019, achieving a record 10%, up from 3.5% Say, 15-20% share in 2021?

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2020 Market Czech Republic PHEV 52

Push EVs

JANUARY 9, 2023

On the flip side, Kia dropped from 7th to 14th, and Hyundai from 3rd to 10th. Tesla’s relative strength in the UK can be seen by the fact that some the other popular BEV models (the Kia Niro, VW ID.3, Brands which saw gains in Q4 compared to Q3 include Polestar (17th position to 8th position), and Volvo (20th to 12th).

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Market Plugin PHEV Cars 59

Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

We’ve been working with Circle K on deploying our technology in Norway and Denmark, to provide grid services that only increase the charge time for the end user by 30 seconds to a minute. We are starting with Norway and Denmark, then we’ll expand across all of the Nordics. Kia, Hyundai will be launching bidirectional-capable vehicles.

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Charging Grid DC Denmark 132

Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Recharge – Largest Charge Point Operator (CPO) in Norway, Sweden and Finland Challenge : Needed a robust solution with a path to operational excellence and scalability. Impact : ESB enjoyed 60% annual network growth and improved customer experience for an exponentially growing customer base.

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Charging Grid DC Industrial 52

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 5, 2021

The Volkswagen ID.3 3 seems like it just hit the market, but the attention has already shifted to the Volkswagen ID.4, 4, and that’s because the ID.4 4 is mopping up in Europe (and also the only fully electric Volkswagen available in the USA).

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Europe Plugin USA Fully Electric 145

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The 2024 Winter El Prix in -10 degrees Celsius / Source : NAF HiPhi Z usurps Model 3 favorite in EV range test by 81 km For the 2024 Winter El Prix, the NAF and Motor gathered a pool of 23 different EVs to track their range across Norway in temperatures between -2° and -10℃ (14° to 28℉) in addition to windy conditions. km (-20.1%) 24.8

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Range Tesla Miles Norway 52

EV Sales

JANUARY 7, 2021

This amazing result translated into a Norway-like 72% PEV (69% BEV) share last month, pulling the 2020 plugin share to 25% (21% BEV), well above the 15% of 2019 and the 6% of 2018, and this share gains even another dimension when we realise that BEVs represented 82% of registrations in 2020, and 96%(!)

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Netherlands 2020 Plugin Volvo 98

EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

8TH PLACE: SOUTH KOREA, 51 POINTS (6TH IN 2019) Claim to fame: Korean EV makers (basically, the Hyundai-Kia conglomerate) continued their advance, nearing 200k made in 2020, while Korean battery makers cemented their global dominance with twin giants LG Chem and Samsung launching factories in Hungary, and more being built elsewhere.

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