Norway is leading the transition. One-third of cars are already electric.

Norway is leading the way in the transition to electric vehicles , according to data from the International Energy Agency's Global Electric Vehicles 2025 Report.

In that non-EU Nordic country, described in the document as a "world leader in electric mobility," 88 percent of cars sold are battery electric (BEV) and just under three percent are plug-in hybrids - which meant a 12 percent drop in oil use compared to 2021.

The outlook for electric cars in Norway is expected to become even more favorable, as taxes on combustion cars and plug-in hybrids increased in April.

The goal is ambitious: to sell only zero-emission vehicles this year. In June, the market share of electric vehicles reached 96.9 percent in Norway, according to the Norwegian Public Roads Administration.

Electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles already account for about a third of the cars on Norwegian roads (32 percent, to be precise). This represents a 20 percent increase in just five years. While electric vehicle sales grew from 100,000 to 110,000 between 2023 and 2024, plug-in hybrid sales fell from 10,000 to 3,500.

Unsurprisingly, there are also repercussions for charging stations: in Norway, over 90 percent of the highway network has a station every 50 km . The same is true in countries like Germany, Belgium, and France. And nearly 20 percent of these are fast chargers located near highways.

In counter-cycle with the EU

While sales of electrified models increased in Norway, 5.9 percent fewer electric vehicles were sold in the European Union last year (1,447,934 compared to 1,538,106).

The drop was also recorded in plug-in hybrids sold, which were 758,944 in 2024 compared to 814,294 in the previous year (minus 6.8 percent).

Only one in five new cars sold in Europe last year was electric, in line with 2023. The share even rose in 14 of the 27 countries, but there was stagnation in key countries and even sharp declines in others such as Germany and France.

And in Portugal?

The Portuguese case is also in the opposite direction to that of the EU as a whole : in 2024, six thousand more electric cars were sold, totaling 41,757 (20 percent of total sales), representing an increase of 14.7 percent, and a thousand more plug-in hybrids (28,346).

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