Welcome back to the podcast. Today, Norway nears all-electric market. The UK extends the grant,

and Alpine locks in EV launches. Plus, stay tuned later in the show. I'll tell you about yet another

study, which shows how dirty plug-in hybrids are when not charged. No, EV News, China today,

is it's the weekend back tomorrow with November's sales data.

Norway's new car market is now almost entirely electric and Tesla is pulling ahead of its rivals.

In November, 19,89 new passenger cars were registered, according to the Road Traffic Agency, OFV.

Of those, 1988-99, 19,427 were pure battery electric cars.

So in November, Norway had an pure EV share of 97.6% of new vehicle sales. It's one of the

strongest months in Norwegian new car sales ever,

the agency said. The jump is sharp even by Norway's standards. EV registrations rose by

8,575 compared with October and by 8,487 versus a year earlier. Combustion power trains together

accounted for less than 1% of the market.

OFV links the surge to several forces, looming tax changes from 2026, heavy discounting,

wider availability of cheaper models and gradual economic recovery. Managing director,

Gere Inger Stockett, called it an historically strong November.

He said uncertainty over a proposed VAT change and the final state budget is prompting many buyers to bring forward purchases, and he expects December to be strong as well.

Tesla was the clear winner. It captured 31% of the market with

6,212 registrations, almost one in three new cars. So far this year, Tesla has registered

28,500 vehicles already beating its own record set in 2023 and Volkswagen's Norwegian record from pre-lockdown times in 2016.

A finish for Tesla above 30,000 in total now looks likely.

One of the stories of The Week, which wasn't reported so widely amidst all of the news about

Britain how having a pay-per per mile charge on electric vehicles from

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