Among traditional car brands, Volkswagen is at the forefront of accepting electric vehicles. It has not only launched a number of pure electric vehicles, but also announced a plan to stop selling fuel vehicles. Recently, it has begun to take the lead in implementing it in Norway. Norwegian Volkswagen importer Møller Mobility Group confirmed that they will stop accepting orders for fuel vehicles by December this year.Starting next year, Volkswagen will only sell electric cars in Norway.
Such a move makes sense. After all, Norway has a very high acceptance and penetration rate of electric vehicles.
Official data shows that electric vehicles currently account for more than 20% of all passenger cars in the country, and the penetration rate of new cars has reached 84%. Counting plug-in hybrids, this number will rise to 90%.That is to say, for every 10 cars sold, only 1 is pure fuel..
Volkswagen has imported more than 102,000 electric vehicles to Norway in the past ten years.Among them, ID.4 has become the second best-selling model in Norway., second only to Tesla Model Y, while ID.3 ranked eighth.
In addition, Norway also plans to ban all fuel vehicles from the road starting in 2025. This is also the world's earliest ban on fuel vehicles. Volkswagen's decision is actually to cater to the country's policies.
So why is the penetration rate of electric vehicles so high in Norway? On the one hand, it is because the country is extremely rich in water resources and contains huge hydropower resources. On the other hand, it is also inseparable from the strong guidance and promotion of policies, including a series of preferential measures such as exempting 25% of value-added tax and reducing road taxes. Therefore, in 2020, the sales of new energy vehicles in Norway exceeded that of fuel vehicles.
Despite the increasing popularity of electric vehicles, the country has begun to phase out incentives for purchasing new energy vehicles, also to reduce the number of private cars (even electric ones) on the road and encourage walking, cycling and public transportation.
It is reported that starting from this year,The country imposes a 25% value-added tax on vehicles purchased with a purchase price of more than 500,000 Norwegian kroner (approximately 329,800 yuan)., and this tax system is dynamic. The more expensive the car, the higher the value-added tax.