{"id":7170,"date":"2020-01-03T03:53:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T09:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2020-01-03T03:53:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T09:53:14","slug":"after-teslas-record-year-in-norway-rivals-gear-up-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7170","title":{"rendered":"After Tesla’s Record Year in Norway, Rivals Gear Up for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FILE PHOTO: A 2018 Tesla Model 3 electric vehicle is shown in Cardiff, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

OSLO (Reuters) – The sale of new electric cars in Norway rose by 30.9% last year amid soaring demand for Tesla Inc’s <TSLA<\/a>> vehicles, but the pioneering U.S. firm faces rising competition from rival auto makers in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fully electric cars made up 42.4% of sales in the Nordic nation last year, a global record, rising from a 31.2% market share in 2018 and just 5.5% in 2013, the Norwegian Road Federation said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeking to become the first country to end the sale of fossil-fueled cars by 2025, Norway exempts battery-powered vehicles from the taxes imposed on petrol and diesel engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, as many as six in 10 of all new cars sold in the country could be fully electric, said Volkswagen <VWAPY<\/a>> distributor Harald A. Moeller AS, which is preparing to launch several models in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The electrification of the car market is accelerating … we forecast electric vehicles to hold a 100% market share in 2025,” the importer said of the outlook for Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country’s best-selling car in 2019 was Tesla’s mid-sized Model 3 sedan, which retails from 384,900 Norwegian crowns ($43,721.74), racking up an 11% market share in the California-based firm’s first attempt at addressing the mass market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Reporting by Victoria Klesty and Lefteris Karagiannopoulos, writing by Terje Solsvik, editing by Gwladys Fouche)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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