2025 Saw EVs At 97.5% Share In Norway — Tesla Model Y Best-Seller

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December saw plugin EVs at 98.5% share in Norway, up from 89.8% year on year, with BEVs alone taking 97.6% share. Full year 2025 saw EVs at 97.5% share in Norway, up from 91.3% YoY, with all the growth coming from BEVs. Overall December auto volume was 35,188 units, a breakout volume, up some 2.6x YoY, ahead of VAT increases. Full year 2025 auto volume was 179,547 units, up 53% from 2024.The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling passenger car in December, and for full year 2025.

December’s auto sales saw combined plugin EVs take 98.5% share in Norway, with full battery-electrics (BEVs) at 97.6% and plugin hybrids (PHEVs) at 0.9%. These shares compare YoY against 89.8% combined, 85.5% BEV, and 4.3% PHEV.

Note that the baseline of December 2024 was itself an anomalous month shaped by pull-forward non-BEV sales ahead of looming tax increases on non-BEVs.

Full year 2025 plugin share was 97.5%, up from 91.3% in 2024. BEVs share continued to erode all other powertrains, increasing from 88.4% in 2024 to 95.9% in 2025.

December 2025’s high sales volume was due to another pull-forward in auto sales, this time more evenly spread across all powertrains, ahead of VAT increases for all autos (including most BEVs) from January 2026. January sales have seen a notable hangover as a result, but the market will resettle after 2 or 3 months.

Best-Selling BEVs

The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling BEV in December, with 5,064 units, its highest volume of the year (over its 5,000 June sales). The runners up were the Volkswagen ID.4. and the Toyota BZ4X.

In the last quarter of 2025, the Tesla Model Y was also dominant, almost 3x the volume of the runner up Volkswagen ID.4. The Tesla Model 3 came in third place.

Turning to the full year rankings, again the Tesla Model Y was overwhelmingly dominant, with more volume than the next four models combined.

This is actually a big step up in volume from the Model Y over its 2024 total (16,832 units), and an increased lead over rivals in the Norwegian market. This bucks the wider trend in Europe where the Tesla Model Y – though still by far the best-selling BEV in 2025 – saw its volumes 2025 fall compared to 2024.

Fleet Update

Our source for Norwegian fleet data has undergone an extreme “simplification” over the past couple of months, now only providing a quarterly figure for BEVs vs all-other-pairtrains-combined. This means that, for now at least, we can no longer track in detail how the petrol fleet and diesel fleet are each declining.

The latest BEV share figure given for the end of Q4 2025 is 32.1% of the fleet, and that’s up from 30.6% at the end of Q3. This is a larger than normal increase in share (it’s usually up around 1% per quarter), because December was an anomalously high sales volume month.

By my reckoning the diesel fleet share should now be down to around 31.5% share, and petrol down to 24.1%. HEVs and PHEVs combined are hovering around 12.5% (these have now both peaked and are on a slow decline).

Outlook

Norway has now effectively reached the end point of the EV transition as far as new sales are concerned. There are a few more niches and price points to improve, but we can expect above 98% BEV sales (on average) from now on. It also remains the most dynamic European market for new BEV models, often before they are seen elsewhere in Europe. It’s therefore worth keeping an eye on what’s happening in Norway, and of course following the fleet share transition remains of interest as a yardstick for others, albeit everyone else is still far behind.

What are your thoughts on Norway’s EV transition, and when will other European nations catch up? Please jump into the comments below and join the conversation.

Note: I’ll be moving from a monthly to a quarterly schedule for our European EV market reports this year. This is partly because change in European EV markets is now rather slow and counter-revolutionary. This seems to have been agreed upon by the political and capitalist elites in Europe, which benefits the latter by ICE rent-seeking from us consumers. The move to quarterly reporting is also partly because I have university commitments which unfortunately leave me little spare time for more frequent reporting. My apologies for this, and I thank you for your understanding.

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