Norway | Volkswagen will stop selling thermal cars
(Oslo) German Volkswagen, the second largest manufacturer in Norway, will stop selling new gasoline and diesel cars in the Scandinavian country from 2024, the brand’s importer announced on Friday.
“As a farewell to fossil fuel cars, the last Golf will be ordered towards the end of the year,” Ulf Tore Hekneby, director of the Norwegian Møller Group, said in a statement.
“This will in many ways mark the end of an era, but also the beginning of a new, bigger era where we are more part of the solution, not the problem,” he added.
Although a major producer of hydrocarbons, Norway has set itself the ambitious objective of selling only zero-emission cars, that is to say essentially electric, from 2025 – ten years before the EU.
Electric cars already represent more than 80% of new registrations there today (83.4% over the first nine months of the year), according to the Road Traffic Information Council (OFV).
Second manufacturer in Norway with a market share of 12.32% since January behind the American Tesla (21.4%), itself an all-electric specialist, Volkswagen will now focus on models in 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 1er last June.
