Norway registered 13,451 new passenger cars in August 2026, 3.4% fewer than in August 2025. Of those, 98.7% were battery-electric, a monthly record for the country and up from 96.9% a year earlier. The figure covers passenger cars, not vans or heavier vehicles, and takes the electric share for 2026 so far to 97.8%.
New passenger car registrations in Norway, August 2026. OFV states volumes for the top three models in its monthly release; positions four to ten are named in rank order without individual figures.
The Volkswagen ID.4 was the most-registered model of the month on 710 cars, ahead of the Toyota bZ4X on 630 and the BMW iX3 on 486. OFV gives volumes for the top three in its monthly release and names positions four to ten in order without breaking them out.
Volkswagen led the brand table too, with 1,457 registrations and a 10.8% share, followed by Toyota on 1,328 and 9.9%. Six of the ten largest brands registered more cars than in August 2025.
Tesla finished seventh on 627 cars, 2,387 fewer than in the same month last year and a drop of 79.2% against it. That is one month measured against one comparison month, so it says more about the timing of Tesla’s deliveries than about the year: across 2026 so far Tesla is still Norway’s largest brand, down 11%, with Toyota up 46.4% and the gap between them narrowed to 3,740 cars from 9,173. Set Tesla aside entirely and the rest of the market grew 17% year on year, which is OFV’s own arithmetic on its own table.
Below the top three, the order ran Volvo EX30, Toyota Urban Cruiser, BYD Atto 3 Evo, Tesla Model 3, Audi Q4 e-tron, Xpeng G6 and Volkswagen ID.7. OFV lists the BYD under its Norwegian name, EVO 4x4.
Xpeng and BYD together accounted for 11.4% of August registrations, and Xpeng and Toyota posted the strongest growth of any brand in the top ten. Xpeng, BYD, Toyota, BMW, Volvo and Audi all grew; the six brands that did are what kept a 3.4% market decline from being a steeper one.
Share of Norway's new passenger car registrations that were not battery-electric, in percent. Derived from OFV's BEV share for each period.
What is not electric now fits in a footnote. Fewer than 200 of the month’s registrations were anything else: 64 diesels, 45 plug-in hybrids, 31 petrol hybrids and 30 petrol cars. OFV noted that the diesel figure rose noticeably in the run-up to a tax change, which is the kind of movement that only shows up at all because the base is this small.
That is the shift OFV is pointing at. With new-car sales this close to fully electric, the road-transport emissions still on Norway’s books belong almost entirely to cars already registered, and the rate at which those leave the fleet is not something the new-car market can change much faster than it already has.
“Further emissions cuts therefore depend to an increasing degree on how quickly older petrol and diesel cars disappear from the existing vehicle fleet.”
Geir Inge Stokke, director, OFV
The remaining headroom in the share figure is 1.3 points, so the monthly records from here will be small ones. The number worth watching instead is the total: 13,451 cars is a smaller market than a year ago, and how quickly Norway retires its old cars now matters more to its emissions than what share of the new ones plug in.
How the share got this high in the first place, measure by measure, is covered in our guide to how Norway made almost every new car electric.
Source: August 2026 registration statistics from OFV
