Petrol Gross sales In Norway Drop 8% 12 months Over 12 months

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Electrical automobile gross sales have been rising sturdy over the previous decade, and particularly over the previous 4 years or so. One factor that some individuals have identified, although, is that rising EV gross sales is one factor, really decreasing use of petrol (gasoline and diesel) and chopping carbon emissions. Even when you’ve got 100% EV gross sales a yr, it takes time for older petrol-powered automobiles to get off the highway and cease polluting.

Norway has been, far and away, the chief by way of EV market share, with even 90%+ of gross sales being plugin gross sales in recent times. Nearly all of automobiles on its roads, although, are nonetheless fossil-powered polluters. It simply takes time for automobiles to be retired from the highway.

That’s why some current information shared by CleanTechnica reader trackdaze actually caught my consideration. He commented that recent information from Norway confirmed that gross sales of petrol dropped a whopping 8% yr over yr in Might. That’s a giant drop in gross sales when you think about how little the fleet of automobiles on the highway is anticipated to vary from one yr to the subsequent. Kudos to Norway! In fact, this wasn’t achieved simply from the brand new electrical automobiles bought prior to now yr, but in addition from what number of EVs have been bought in recent times, resulting in increasingly more petrol-powered automobiles attending to the ends of their lives over time if not instantly.

Gasoline gas gross sales for highway transportation had been down 3.7% in Might 2024 versus Might 2023, whereas dutiable diesel gas gross sales for highway transportation had been down 9.6% in Might 2024 versus Might 2023.

12 months so far, gasoline gross sales are down 1.4%, dutiable diesel gross sales are down 7.3%, and general petrol gas for highway transportation is down 5.9%. What is going to they be at in a yr?