https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Tesla sales have rebounded in Norway this year, official figures showed on Monday, despite a broader European trend of consumers turning away from Elon Musk's electric car brand. https://www.thelocal.no/20250602/tesla-bucks-trend-in-norway-as-sales-rise Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:00:30 +0200 tesla-bucks-trend-in-norway-as-sales-rise Norway's biggest private sector union is joining a Danish union in threatening solidarity action as part of a strike against Tesla in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.no/20231207/norwegian-union-threatens-solidarity-action-in-swedish-tesla-strike Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:38:24 +0100 norwegian-union-threatens-solidarity-action-in-swedish-tesla-strike "I've had the car for eight months and it ran fine for four days," says Yngve Solberg, who like many Norwegians is fed up with the slew of problems his Tesla X has given him. https://www.thelocal.no/20180805/battery-of-complaints-against-tesla-in-norway Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:43:48 +0200 battery-of-complaints-against-tesla-in-norway Nearly 80 Tesla owners in Norway have reportedly sued the US automaker over misleading advertising, saying their electric car did not deliver the promised performance. https://www.thelocal.no/20180111/tesla-faces-fresh-norway-lawsuit-over-false-advertising Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:04:46 +0100 tesla-faces-fresh-norway-lawsuit-over-false-advertising Norway, a world leader of zero-emission vehicles, on Thursday proposed a "Tesla tax" aimed at cutting a tax advantage granted to large electric cars in a heavily criticised move. https://www.thelocal.no/20171013/norway-seeks-tesla-tax-on-electric-cars Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:42:49 +0200 norway-seeks-tesla-tax-on-electric-cars US automaker Tesla has reached an agreement with car owners in Norway dissatisfied because their electric cars didn't accelerate as quickly as promised, thereby avoiding a trial, a Norwegian court said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.no/20161213/tesla-settles-lawsuit-with-angry-norway-motorists Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:54:30 +0100 tesla-settles-lawsuit-with-angry-norway-motorists More than 100 disgruntled Tesla owners in Norway have sued the US automaker because the electric cars don't accelerate as quickly as promised, their lawyers said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20160922/tesla-sued-in-norway-over-sluggish-cars Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:45:43 +0200 tesla-sued-in-norway-over-sluggish-cars Can it possibly be true? A Norwegian website drag-raced Tesla’s new top-of-the-range P85D electric sports car against a snowmobile on a frozen lake and the Tesla came out best. https://www.thelocal.no/20150313/tesla-p85d-vs-snowmobile-on-frozen-lake Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:29:52 +0100 tesla-p85d-vs-snowmobile-on-frozen-lake Norway's electric car market boomed in March, with sales of the environmentally friendly vehicles accounting for a record one in five of all cars registered, a national traffic group said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20140402/norway-electric-car-sales-set-new-record-2 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 22:24:00 +0200 norway-electric-car-sales-set-new-record-2 All petrol and diesel cars should banned from the city of Oslo by 2035, Norway's Labour Party has declared in its draft environmental policy for the city. https://www.thelocal.no/20140328/ban-petrol-cars-in-oslo-by-2013-labour Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:58:00 +0100 ban-petrol-cars-in-oslo-by-2013-labour US tech billionaire Elon Musk is in Norway to say thank you to the 2,100 people in the country who bought one of his Tesla S electric sports cars, making it the vehicle's second biggest market after the United States. https://www.thelocal.no/20140131/elon-musk-in-norway-to-thank-tesla-buyers Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:14:00 +0100 elon-musk-in-norway-to-thank-tesla-buyers Tesla Motor's Model S electric sports car has taken a 25 percent chunk of Norway's booming electric car market, selling nearly 2,000 vehicles in 2013. https://www.thelocal.no/20140106/teslas-model-s-takes-a-quarter-of-norways-market Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0100 teslas-model-s-takes-a-quarter-of-norways-market Electric cars took more than ten percent of Norway's car market in November thanks to the country's generous incentives, official figures published on Tuesday have revealed. https://www.thelocal.no/20131203/electric-cars-pass-10-of-norway-market Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:44:00 +0100 electric-cars-pass-10-of-norway-market The Nissan Leaf, the Japanese giant's electric car offering was Norway's best-selling car in October, marking the second month an electric vehicle has topped the country's car sales. https://www.thelocal.no/20131107/electric-car-tops-norway-sales-for-second-month Thu, 07 Nov 2013 11:35:22 +0100 electric-car-tops-norway-sales-for-second-month An electric car model has topped the list of new car registrations in Norway for the first time, a car industry group said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.no/20131003/norways-most-popular-new-car-is-electric Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:47:00 +0200 norways-most-popular-new-car-is-electric