Lithium & The Future, page-60

More than one in five new cars in Norway plug in


Despite cutbacks in May to generous incentives, Norway’s love affair with cars that can run on electricity means plug-in electrified vehicles (PEVs) now account for 22.9 percent ofnew cars sales.
Comprised of battery electric cars and plug-in hybrids, if the same thing were to happen in the U.S. on a percentage basis, it would have meant 1,943,177 new PEVs on American roads since January.
Chances of that are about nil, but in Norway, the microcosm of PEV adoption has the oil-producing state shipping off its petroleum, while its citizens turn to cars that run on the grid at a higher rate than anywhere in the world.
For calendar year 2015, the website elbil.no reports 18.4 percent of new cars in Norway have been battery electric, and 4.5 percent are plug-in hybrids.