The Tesla Model Y returned to the top of the list of best-selling cars.
March 8, 2023 at 8:13 am ET
In February, the Norwegian passenger car market saw a decline of 8.7% year-on-year to 7,439. It reflects the current difficult situation in the market, but at least it is not as bad as in January, when registrations fell by almost 77 percent.
Meanwhile, sales of plug-in electric cars stabilized. According to the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV), 6,704 new plug-in passenger cars were registered last month (down 4% year-on-year). That’s just over 90 percent of the total volume, which means there’s nothing to complain about.
In addition, all-electric car registrations rose 0.4 percent year-on-year to 6,183 (83.1 percent of the market), while the decline is solely related to plug-in hybrids. PHEVs continue their freefall for 14 consecutive months.
Statistics of the month (only passenger cars):
- BEV: 6,183 (0.4% more, with a market share of 83.1%)
- PHEV: 521 (down 39%, with 7.0% market share)
- Total: 6,704 (4% less, with a market share of 90.1%)
So far this year, more than 8,000 new electric passenger cars have been registered in Norway, which is 43 fewer than a year ago.
Registration of connected cars up to the date of the year:
- BEV: 7,420 (42% less, with a market share of 79.8%)
- PHEV: 703 (down 49%, with a market share of 7.6%)
- Total: 8,123 (43% less, 87.4% market share)
For reference, in 12 months of 2022, more than 153,000 new plug-in electric cars were registered in Norway (up 0.8% year-on-year).
In February, the most registered car (regardless of powertrain) was the Tesla Model Y with 1,271 units, returning it to the top, well ahead of the Volkswagen ID.4 that was No. 1 in January. The ID.4 scored 485 units.
An interesting thing is that the Toyota bZ4X was the second best model last month with 568 units, followed by 535 Volkswagen ID.3.
Another interesting thing is that the new Volkswagen ID. Buzz was #15 in February with 104 units.
