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Norway File

New passenger-car registrations for Norway — the world's most electrified car market — straight from OFV, which compiles them from the Statens vegvesen vehicle register, read automatically from the tables of OFV's own monthly release and checked against OFV's open JSON export, about three weeks before ACEA republishes the same figures.

2026-10

Latest period held

97.9%

TTM BEV share (Whole)

Variants

Who sells the new cars

Whole · last 2 months (2026-09 → 2026-10) · 34,458 new registrations in total. Units are registrations; Brands and models as OFV names them in its monthly release (models are listed with the brand in front, which the page strips). Both are OFV's top 30 of the month; the rest of the market counts towards the total but is not ranked. Every powertrain together — OFV publishes its brand table without a fuel split. With 98% of new cars battery-electric, it is in effect the battery-electric ranking.

Single months as the fetcher sees each release, from September 2026 (the first release with HTML tables); the headline sums the months available so far and grows to twelve.

Show:

Top brands — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%34,458
1	Tesla	18.8%6,483
2	Toyota	8.2%2,826
3	Volkswagen	7.2%2,490
4	Volvo	5.6%1,939
5	BMW	5.5%1,881
6	Mercedes-Benz	4.7%1,606
7	BYD	4.6%1,574
8	Xpeng	4.3%1,496
9	Skoda	4.0%1,371
10	Audi	3.9%1,349
	rest	33.2%11,443

Top designations — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%34,458
1	Model YTesla	18.1%6,239
2	BZ4XToyota	3.8%1,292
3	GLCMercedes-Benz	3.1%1,076
4	ID.4Volkswagen	3.1%1,069
5	EX30Volvo	2.7%916
6	Q4 E-TronAudi	2.6%913
7	EVO 4X4BYD	2.4%842
8	IX3BMW	2.3%798
9	G6Xpeng	2.2%767
10	Urban CruiserToyota	2.2%749
11	EX40Volvo	1.8%637
12	ElroqSkoda	1.8%629
13	C-HR+Toyota	1.8%628
14	Sealion 7BYD	1.8%614
15	EnyaqSkoda	1.8%605
	rest	48.4%16,684

ALL = every powertrain (the source has no brand × fuel table).

October 2026 · 15,725 new registrations. Single-month lists are shorter: top 10 brands and top 10 designations per powertrain.

Top brands — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%15,725
1	Tesla	9.8%1,548
2	Toyota	9.5%1,493
3	Volkswagen	8.3%1,308
4	BMW	6.5%1,025
5	Xpeng	5.9%932
6	Volvo	5.4%851
7	BYD	5.2%816
8	Audi	5.0%787
9	Mercedes-Benz	4.6%720
10	Skoda	4.4%690
	rest	35.3%5,555

Top designations — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%15,725
1	Model YTesla	9.1%1,429
2	BZ4XToyota	4.6%725
3	ID.4Volkswagen	3.5%553
4	G6Xpeng	3.5%542
5	Q4 E-TronAudi	3.4%535
6	GLCMercedes-Benz	3.2%508
7	IX3BMW	2.8%446
8	EVO 4X4BYD	2.8%437
9	Urban CruiserToyota	2.6%415
10	EX30Volvo	2.2%340
	rest	62.3%9,795

ALL = every powertrain (the source has no brand × fuel table).

September 2026 · 18,733 new registrations. Single-month lists are shorter: top 10 brands and top 10 designations per powertrain.

Top brands — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%18,733
1	Tesla	26.3%4,935
2	Toyota	7.1%1,333
3	Volkswagen	6.3%1,182
4	Volvo	5.8%1,088
5	Mercedes-Benz	4.7%886
6	BMW	4.6%856
7	KIA	4.1%770
8	BYD	4.0%758
9	Skoda	3.6%681
10	Xpeng	3.0%564
	rest	30.3%5,680

Top designations — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%18,733
1	Model YTesla	25.7%4,810
2	EX30Volvo	3.1%576
3	GLCMercedes-Benz	3.0%568
4	BZ4XToyota	3.0%567
5	ID.4Volkswagen	2.8%516
6	EVO 4X4BYD	2.2%405
7	Q4 E-TronAudi	2.0%378
8	IX3BMW	1.9%352
9	EV5KIA	1.9%350
10	Urban CruiserToyota	1.8%334
	rest	52.7%9,877

ALL = every powertrain (the source has no brand × fuel table).

Raw source

Go and check the numbers yourself:

OFV (Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken) — monthly new-car release, from the Statens vegvesen register ↗

OFV statistics — new-car registrations — monthly totals of the year, the fuel mix from January to the last complete month, brand rankings; data from OFV Statistikk / Statens vegvesen
OFV news (the monthly release is one of these articles) — one article on the first working day of the next month, with the month's fuel table, top-30 brands and top-30 models as HTML tables since the September 2026 release (earlier releases carried them as images); a second article the next day covers vans
OFV's open JSON export (CC BY 4.0) — the same statistics as the page, machine-readable and explicitly allowed for crawlers in OFV's robots.txt — the fetcher's independent cross-check, and its fallback if no release article can be found
ACEA — monthly new-car registrations — republishes OFV's figure for Norway about three weeks later; the gallery's Norway source from 2026-04 to 2026-08, and still the fallback writer for a month OFV's fetcher could not fill

Newest stored month (2026-10) was read from this exact document ↗.

How the data flows

Origin

Statens vegvesen (Norwegian Public Roads Administration) — the national vehicle register (Autosys), compiled and published by OFV

Source / API

OFV (Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken) — monthly new-car release, from the Statens vegvesen register

Fetcher

scripts/fetch_norway.py · .github/workflows/fetch-norway.yml

Find the release

OFV's monthly article has no fixed address. The fetcher reads OFV's RSS feed (and, as a fallback, its sitemap), opens every article published since the 1st of the next month and keeps the one whose fuel table is for the target month. OFV publishes a van release with the same three tables the next day; it is recognised by its brand table ("varebilmerkene") and skipped.

Article published since the 1st, with a "Fordeling per drivstoff" table for the target month?

Falsenext article
yes
Brand table about vans ("varebilmerkene")?
- yesskipped — the van release
- nothe passenger-car release → Whole
none found by the 10thOFV's JSON export year-to-date minus the months already stored → Whole, flagged "derived" in the notes and replaced by the article's figures once one is found
an estimate — counted by OFV for the year, derived for the month

Powertrain

OFV's table has one row per drivstoff. The fetcher reads the rows by their label, never by position; a label it does not know stops the run until someone decides its column.

OFV fuel row?

ElektrisitetBEV
Bensin plugin hybrid, Diesel plugin hybridPHEV
range extenders are registered as plug-in hybrids
Bensin hybrid, Diesel hybridHEV
not chargeable — the figure ACEA reports as HEV for Norway
BensinPETROL
DieselDIESEL
Hydrogen, gas and other rare fuelsOTHERS
as ACEA files them; none in 2026
TotalTOTAL

Check it

The rows must add up to the Total, and each printed share must match the counts (a shifted column fails). Two separate OFV publications must then agree exactly — the month's Total with the monthly series of OFV's JSON export, and the article's year-to-date column with the export's fuel mix, fuel by fuel. The year-to-date column minus the months already in the chart must give this month again, and the Total must be within 0.15–4× the same month a year earlier. Only then is the month written — as a new line; the ACEA row for a month is replaced, any other existing row is kept.

Store

data/Norway.csv

Render

Each new or changed month re-renders the country. Shares are read from the CSV as column ÷ TOTAL and grouped into three curves. A generalized Weibull S-curve is fitted to the BEV and the ICE share, and the charts, the fitted parameters, the twelve-month totals and the uncertainty bands are rewritten.

Which curve does a CSV column count towards?

BEVBEV
PHEV or EREV (plug-in hybrids, range extenders)
Does the source split plug-ins from other hybrids?
- yesPHEV
- no — one combined hybrid figure (parked in HEV)ICE
  the PHEV curve is left out, never drawn at zero
HEV or MHEV (full and mild hybrids — no plug)ICE
petrol, diesel, gas, flex-fuel, othersICE

Gallery

BEV Trajectories gallery

Definitions & scope

Acquisition	File — downloaded as a data file (XLSX / Parquet / ODS / zip)
Vehicle scope	First registrations of new passenger cars in Norway as OFV counts them from the Statens vegvesen register — all brands, private and company buyers together. Used imports are a separate OFV count and not included.
HEV (full hybrids)	OFV publishes seven fuel rows. Elektrisitet is BEV; petrol and diesel plug-in hybrids are PHEV; petrol and diesel hybrids (not chargeable) are HEV; plain petrol and diesel are PETROL and DIESEL. OFV's hybrid rows are what ACEA reports as HEV for Norway — the 2026 year-to-date reconciles to one car — so HEV here means the same as in the other ACEA-anchored countries. Range extenders are registered as plug-in hybrids. Hydrogen and other rare fuels would go to OTHERS, as at ACEA (none in 2026).
Backfill	Whole is OFV's figures from 2005-01, transcribed by hand ("ofv.no & ACEA") to 2026-03, ACEA's republished OFV figures for 2026-04..08 (July derived from ACEA's year-to-date, as ACEA had no July release), and read automatically from OFV's release from 2026-09. Vans, HDV and Buses are ACEA's quarterly Commercial Vehicle figures.
Auth	none

Variants

Each variant is its own series with its own CSV. Not every variant is charted in the gallery — the CSV is the authoritative record either way.

Variant	What it counts	Held	Raw data
Whole	New passenger cars registered in Norway for the first time (EU M1), every brand — OFV's "nye personbiler". Used imports are a separate OFV count and not included.	2005-01 – 2026-10 262 rows	`data/Norway.csv`
Vans	New vans (N1), quarterly, from ACEA's Commercial Vehicle report — not yet from OFV (see the source doc, "Not built yet").	2021-07 – 2026-08 21 rows	`data/Norway_Vans.csv`
HDV	New trucks (N2+N3), quarterly, from ACEA's Commercial Vehicle report.	2021-07 – 2026-08 21 rows	`data/Norway_HDV.csv`
Buses	New buses and coaches (M2+M3), quarterly, from ACEA's Commercial Vehicle report.	2021-07 – 2026-08 21 rows	`data/Norway_Buses.csv`

History we hold

Every bar is the span actually present in our stored CSV — breaks in a bar are real gaps in the series, not rendering. Cadence is shown on the right.

Whole 2005-01–2026-10 (262 rows), Vans 2021-07–2026-08 (21 rows), HDV 2021-07–2026-08 (21 rows), Buses 2021-07–2026-08 (21 rows). Some rows additionally carry a time_interval of yearly; the cadence shown is the spacing the periods actually have.

Which fuel columns this source fills

A blank column almost never means "no such cars" — it means this source does not split them out, and those vehicles are counted inside another column. Check the caveats for where they land.

	BEV	PHEV	HEV	PETROL	DIESEL	OTHERS
Whole	reported	reported	reported	reported	reported	reported
Vans	reported	not reported	reported	reported	reported	reported
HDV	reported	not reported	always zero	reported	reported	reported
Buses	reported	not reported	always zero	reported	reported	reported

reported column exists but is zero in every row not reported by this source. Hover a cell for the row count.

Caveats

Norway is almost fully electric: 95.9% of new cars were battery-electric in 2025 and 97.9% in January–September 2026. The curve is at its ceiling; what still moves is the last few per cent of hybrids and diesels (mostly four-wheel-drive and towing cars).
OFV refreshes earlier months a little as late registrations and corrections arrive. The chart keeps every month as first published (OFV's figures today differ from the stored ones by 0–85 cars a month in 2025–2026; 11 of the 17 months January 2025–September 2026 are identical).
April and July 2026 come from ACEA: its April figure is 8 cars below OFV's, and July — which ACEA never published on its own — was derived from ACEA's year-to-date, so it is 8 cars too high. The two errors cancel over the year; the fuel split of the two months cannot be corrected, because OFV's month-by-month fuel tables for that period are images.
Plug-in hybrids and hybrids are counted as OFV registers them. A December pull-forward ahead of a tax change (2022, 2025) makes single months spiky; read a month against the same month a year earlier.
The brand and model tables on this page are every powertrain together — OFV's brand table has no fuel split — and both are OFV's monthly top 30, so the smallest brands are not ranked.