Norway Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Most streets you walk down you ll see a charging point.

Norway electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

They re ubiquitous across the city and it s common to see a cable snaking out plugged into the side of a nearby car. Norway is the world s electricity laboratory. Oslo launched a municipal charging infrastructure program in 2008 and the outcomes are clear. The norwegian plug in car segment market share has been the highest in the world for several years.

Automakers around the world ship their new electric cars to norway first because the electric car market here is the most mature with the most. Robert duffer may 20 2019 comment now. In march 2014 norway became the first country where one in every 100 passenger cars on the road was a plug in electric. The market penetration passed 5 in december 2016 and attained 10 in october 2018.

Norway has only 5 26 million people about half the size of los angeles county in population and with only about 35 percent of la s vehicles on its roads. As of may 2018 there are 230 000 registered battery electric cars bevs in norway. Norway s capital city of oslo will be the world s first metropolitan area to install wireless induction based charging stations for electric taxis in a bid to make a zero emission cab system. The norwegian parliament has decided on a national goal that all new cars sold by 2025 should be zero emission electric or hydrogen.

In norway the number of electric car charging stations has increased in recent years reaching more than 16 thousand for roughly 400 thousand electric and plug in hybrid cars registered as of 2020. The fleet of plug in electric vehicles in norway is the largest per capita in the world. Evs30 international battery hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicle symposium 1 evs30 symposium stuttgart germany october 9 11 2017 charging infrastructure experiences in norway the worlds most advanced ev market erik lorentzen1 petter haugneland2 christina bu3 espen hauge4 1senior adviser norwegian ev association erik elbil no. It s the latest record breaking statistic involving norway and electric vehicle ev records as the.

Almost 60 of new cars sold in norway during march 2019 were entirely electric powered.