The German group Volkswagen, the second manufacturer by sales in Norway, will stop selling new gasoline and diesel cars in the Scandinavian country starting in 2024, the brand’s importer announced this Friday.
“As a farewell to cars that run on fossil fuels, the last Golf will be commissioned at the end of the year,” Ulf Tore Hekneby, director of the Norwegian group Møller, said in a statement.
“This will mark in many ways the end of an era, but also the beginning of a new and greater era in which we will be more part of the solution, not the problem,” he added. Although Norway is a major producer of hydrocarbons, it has set the ambitious goal of selling only zero-emission cars, that is, essentially electric, from 2025, ten years ahead of the European Union.
Second manufacturer in the country.
Electric cars already represent more than 80% of new registrations in that country (83.4% in the first nine months of the year), according to the Road Traffic Information Council (OFV).
Volkswagen, the second manufacturer in Norway with a market share of 12.32% since January, behind the American Tesla (21.4%), a specialist in fully electric vehicles, will now focus on the models of its ID electric range. In September, the ID.4 SUV was the second best-selling model in the country behind the Tesla Model Y.
The Swedish Volvo, a subsidiary of the Chinese group Geely, also stopped marketing its diesel models in Norway on June 1.
Source: BFM TV
