Data shows 29 hybrid and 98 diesel cars also sold, while the figure for battery electric vehicles was more than 2,000
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.
Only seven petrol, 29 hybrid and 98 diesel cars were registered, while more than 2,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold.
Car sales were low across the board – customers had rushed to buy cars in December to avoid January tax rises – but the snub to petrol cars comes as Norway races closer to fully phasing out the sale of internal combustion engines that heat the planet and make extreme weather more violent.
