{"id":4161,"date":"2019-04-01T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2019-04-01T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T14:21:58","slug":"tesla-boom-lifts-norways-electric-car-sales-to-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Boom Lifts Norway&#8217;s Electric Car Sales to 58%!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NORWAY-AUTOS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4162\" width=\"594\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NORWAY-AUTOS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NORWAY-AUTOS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NORWAY-AUTOS-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption> FILE PHOTO: Electric cars are seen at Tesla charging station in Gulsvik, Norway March 17, 2019. REUTERS\/Terje Solsvik\/File Photo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OSLO\n (Reuters) &#8211; Almost 60 percent of all new cars sold in Norway in March \nwere fully electric, the Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Monday,\n a global record set by a country seeking to end fossil-fueled vehicles \nsales by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exempting\n battery engines from taxes imposed on diesel and petrol cars has \nupended Norway&#8217;s auto market, elevating brands like Tesla and Nissan, \nwith its Leaf model, while hurting sales of Toyota, Daimler and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n 2018, Norway&#8217;s fully electric car sales rose to a record 31.2 percent \nmarket share from 20.8 percent in 2017, far ahead of any other nation, \nand buyers had to wait as producers struggled to keep up with demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n surge of electrics to a 58.4 percent market share in March came as \nTesla ramped up delivery of its mid-sized Model 3, which retails from \n442,000 crowns ($51,400), while Audi began deliveries of its \n652,000-crowns e-tron sports utility vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Editing by Lefteris Karagiannopoulos and Terje Solsvik, editing by Gwladys Fouche)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/audi-e-tron.png?fit=640%2C320\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4163\" width=\"595\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/audi-e-tron.png 1500w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/audi-e-tron-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/audi-e-tron-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/audi-e-tron-1024x512.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 60 percent of all new cars sold in Norway in March were fully electric, the Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Monday, a global record set by a country seeking to end fossil-fueled vehicles sales by 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794,2303,2203,1397,814,868],"tags":[819,1040,1830,2315,818,3938,3940,463,335,3518,3486,1567,769,412,3367,1514,97,3936,1513,1288,3939,1249,1434,542,3937,1691,1658,3027,1272],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-news","category-electric-vehicle-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-tesla","category-transportation-news","tag-819","tag-audi","tag-auto","tag-battery","tag-car","tag-daimler","tag-e-tron","tag-electric","tag-engine","tag-federation","tag-leaf","tag-market","tag-model","tag-news","tag-nissan","tag-norway","tag-norwegian","tag-nrf","tag-oslo","tag-reuters","tag-road","tag-sales","tag-sports","tag-tesla","tag-toyota","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-utility","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4164,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}