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

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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 (http://www.electric-vehiclenews.com/2013/10/tesla-eyes-10000-annual-sales-of-model.html) 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 boosts 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







Source: EV Sales (http://www.ev-sales.blogspot.ch/2015/03/norway-february-2015.html), Bestsellingcarblog (http://bestsellingcarsblog.com/category/norway/)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=3Kb76muDHqY:pNlTm29pkOM:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?i=3Kb76muDHqY:pNlTm29pkOM:V_sGLiPBpWU (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=3Kb76muDHqY:pNlTm29pkOM:V_sGLiPBpWU) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=3Kb76muDHqY:pNlTm29pkOM:qj6IDK7rITs) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?i=3Kb76muDHqY:pNlTm29pkOM:gIN9vFwOqvQ (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/pEcq?a=3Kb76muDHqY:pNlTm29pkOM:gIN9vFwOqvQ)
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