VW takes a big step
VW wants to rely entirely on electric cars. The goal for Europe is to sell the last combustion engines between 2033 and 2035. Later is also not possible, the plans of the EU will take care of that. But Volkswagen wants to show that it can also be done much faster: In one country, the end should already be at the beginning of 2024.
For many German drivers it is difficult to imagine that in a little more than ten years we may no longer be able to buy classic combustion engines from VW and Co. How must it feel when you find out: Golf, Tiguan, Passat and whatever they are called will no longer be offered in less than two years.
VW is breaking up: Norway will no longer get combustion engines in 2024
This is exactly what the Wolfsburg-based company is planning for the pioneering country of e-mobility: In Norway, from January 1, 2024, there will be no more combustion engines at Volkswagen give to buy. According to Norwegian newspaper reports, this was announced by Ulf Tore Hekneby, head of Volkswagen importer Harald A. Møller AS.
With that, VW turns off the combustion engine tap for Norwegian customers, good ten years before the last petrol and diesel engines from Wolfsburg rolled off the assembly line in the EU have to be. In Norway, however, VW no longer has that much time. Because the end of 2025 will already be the end of combustion engines there anyway. VW is still early.
The step goes even further than just taking diesel and petrol engines out of the portfolio. Hybrids are also over. Volkswagen is taking a calculated risk, albeit a small one, because that Offer is severely restricted. In less than 18 months, customers in Norway will theoretically only have the electric cars of the ID series and the small e-Up available.
The ID Buzz is developing into a real success model for VW:
Volkswagen’s e-car fleet continues to grow
If you don’t like ID.3, ID.4, ID.5 or ID Buzz, you only have the choice of the one that has also been introduced by then ID Aero, the electric counterpart to the Passat. From 2025, VW is also planning a smaller electric car that could go into series production as the ID.2.
Even today, VW’s electric share of sales in Norway is high: good 81 percent of sales so far in 2022 should come from e-cars, the majority is accounted for by the ID.4 (source: Tek.no)
