Norway has become the world's first country to have more electric cars than gasoline cars
Norway has become the first country in the world in which the number of electric cars on the road has exceeded the number of gasoline cars. This follows from the data of the Norwegian Road Federation (NRF).
There are now 2.8 million private cars registered in Norway. Of these, 754,303 are all-electric, and 753,905 are gasoline-powered cars.
In the first place are still diesel cars, which are more than a million, but as noted in the NRF, their number is falling rapidly. Well and hybrids in the country 366 000 pieces.
The Norwegian Road Federation calls this moment historic - “a milestone that few could have predicted even ten years ago” in Europe's second-largest oil-producing country.
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