{"id":126999,"date":"2021-08-31T14:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/tesla-overtakes-volkwagen-ford-in-norway-as-model-y-dominates-august-ev-sales"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:22:44","slug":"tesla-overtakes-volkwagen-ford-in-norway-as-model-y-dominates-august-ev-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/tesla-overtakes-volkwagen-ford-in-norway-as-model-y-dominates-august-ev-sales","title":{"rendered":"Tesla overtakes Volkwagen, Ford in Norway as Model Y dominates August EV sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-overtakes-volkwagen-ford-in-norway-as-model-y-dominates-august-ev-sales2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tesla Model Y has boosted Tesla\u2019s presence and sales in Europe. Charts that track EV sales in Europe reveal that Tesla Model Y sales have already exceeded numbers from legacy automakers in Norway, including Volkswagen, Ford, and Audi.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the full transition to electric vehicles, Norway might be considered the closest to the goal. The Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council (OFV) reported that most new passenger car sales in July were zero-emission cars, taking up 64.1% market share.<\/p>\n<p>Norway might be an excellent place to test the Tesla Model Y\u2019s future in Europe as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/tesla-model-y-first-giga-shanghai-europe-export-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Giga Shanghai continues to send exports<\/a> to the continent. As of August 30 the top EV brand selling in Norway is Tesla, with 1,776 vehicle registrations. The top model sold in Norway this month was the Tesla Model Y, with 1,115 registrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tesla Model Y has boosted Tesla\u2019s presence and sales in Europe. Charts that track EV sales in Europe reveal that Tesla Model Y sales have already exceeded numbers from legacy automakers in Norway, including Volkswagen, Ford, and Audi. In terms of the full transition to electric vehicles, Norway might be considered the closest to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}