Volkswagen puts in Norway Starting next year, it will stop selling cars with combustion engines. “As a farewell to fossil fuel cars, the last Golf will be ordered towards the end of the year,” Möller, the company responsible for VW imports and sales in the Scandinavian country, said on Friday.
“Beginning of a new era”
“This certainly marks the end of an era, but also the beginning of a new era,” explained company boss Ulf Tore Hekneby. Möller wants to “be part of the solution, not the problem” in the future.
In Norway, only zero-emission cars will be sold from 2025. The share of electric cars in new registrations is already over 80 percent.
At a good twelve percent, Volkswagen has the second largest market share behind Tesla at a good 21 percent. In September, VW’s ID.4 electric SUV was the second best-selling car model in Norway behind the Tesla Model M.
Chinese car manufacturers are now catching up and causing problems for German brands. To be in the electric car business China To avoid being left behind, Volkswagen is currently seeking help. The VW brand will expand its specially developed electric portfolio in 2026 with two models that will be developed together with the Chinese manufacturer Xpeng. In Scandinavia, for example, the Chinese electric car manufacturer has been on the market for a few months, now wants to get started in Germany too.