Norway's plug-in electric vehicle market grew 22% last month with 3,622 cars registered and year-to-date numbers growing at 33%, according to data from the European Alternative Fuels Observatory (EAFO).
BMW's i3 was the best selling model, with 503 units, followed by two plug-in hybrids, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, with 360 registrations, and the Volkswagen Passat GTE, with 338 units, its best result in six months.
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Hyundai's Ioniq Electric vehicle registered 66 units in its full sales month.
In the year-to-date ranking, Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV had 4,490 units, Volkswagen's e-Golf had 4,236 registrations, while the Nissan Leaf was 3.667 units and VW's Golf GTE had 3,654 units.
Data from just-auto's Qube service shows carbon footprint of plug-in cars actually declines over time as power grids everywhere gradually lower the carbon required to produce 1 kWh of electricity.
Vehicles fuelled on hydrocarbons, however, are largely immune to that decline unless they run exclusively on synthetic fuels or biofuels–which have their own wells-to-wheel carbon challenges.
EAFO is a European Commission-funded initiative which provides free information to support Member States with the implementation of EU Directive 2014/94 on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure.
Targeted alternative fuels are electricity, hydrogen and natural gas – both liquefied and compressed
Geographical scope is all EU Member States plus EFTA members, as well as Turkey.
