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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ajit Niranjan

Only seven new petrol-powered cars sold in Norway in January

Vehicles on a dual carriageway entering and leaving a tunnel
Traffic using the Ekeberg tunnel, a main Oslo thoroughfare. Battery electric vehicles made up 95.9% of new car sales in Norway last year. Photograph: Grethe Ulgjell/Alamy

Just seven new petrol cars were sold in Norway last month, data shows.

The country, which is the frontrunner in the uptake of electric vehicles, shifted a record low number of new fossil-fuel cars in January, information from the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council (OFV) reveals.

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