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Norway Risks Missing 2025 EV Sales Goal, Federation Says
A plug-in electric vehicle charing point in Stavanger, Norway.
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Norway, the electric car trailblazer, may fall short of its goal that all new cars sold will be fossil-fuel free by 2025 if the government keeps removing the measures that spurred the switch.
The Nordic nation, where every fifth car is already fully electric, may end up with EVs making up about 90% of all new cars sold by the end of next year, Oyvind Solberg Thorsen, director of the Norwegian Road Federation, or OFV, said Wednesday.