A record for EV sales in Norway was set in 2025: 95.9 percent of all new passenger cars sold were fully electric, up from 88.9 percent in 2024.

Yes, but Norway is a very rich country because of all the resources they can just extract from the ground. Australia.. wait, never mind.

Top 10 new passenger cars 2025

1. Tesla Model Y: 27 621

2. Volkswagen ID.4: 8 802

3. Toyota bZ4X: 7 274

4. Volkswagen ID.7: 6 976

5. Tesla Model 3: 6 608

6. Volkswagen ID.3: 5 572

7. Volvo EX40: 5 270

8. Volvo EX30(xc): 5 206

9. Skoda Enyaq: 4 836

10. Nissan Ariya: 4 565

Yes, Norway leads. But it's not an apples with apples comparison.

Norway is a smallish country (you can fit 24 Norway's in Australia - so less range anxiety), whose government pushed the transition to EV's hard. Australia has the worlds most competitive new car market and with one of the least restrictive emissions controls on ICE engines.

It's not that surprising that Norway's government engineered transition to EV's was successful. In Australia EV's became around the same price as ICE vehicles in the last 12 months, and it feels like we've hit a market driven tipping point.

If battery developments take their predicted path, with pricing dropping about 10% per years and range per unit weight doubling, it's difficult to see how it isn't all over bar the shouting - for USA car manufacturing.

Trump sealed the USA's fate, when his changes EV policies lead to $51B in direct write downs. I don't see how you can recover from that.